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Women at the Center

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Description for Women at the Center paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.

Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that the matrilineal Minangkabau—one of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia—label their society a matriarchy. Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in Indonesia for their literary flair, business acumen, and egalitarian, democratic relationships between men and women.

Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy. From the vantage point of daily life in villages, ... Read more

Women at the Center leaves the reader with a solid sense of the respect for women that permeates Minangkabau culture, and gives new life to the concept of matriarchy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489068
SKU
V9780801489068
Shipping Time
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About Peggy Reeves Sanday
Peggy Reeves Sanday is R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her many books include Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System, A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial, and Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality.

Reviews for Women at the Center
This is an accessible study delivering vivid and personal descriptions of the importance of women to the everyday workings of Minang life.
Maila Stivens, University of Melbourne
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
Women at the Center is an argument against the polarizations implicit in the old studies of power and gender. The Minangkabau, Sanday shows us, have ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Women at the Center


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