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A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau

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A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau - Peletz, Michael G
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The inhabitants of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan have long been of interest to outside observers. They are Muslims yet they have matrilineal clans, and both houses and land tend to be owned and inherited by women. In the face of British rule, modern market forces, and Islamic nationalism, the Malays of the Rembau district of Negeri Sembilan have succeeded in retaining many features of their matrilineality. Michael Peletz examines persistence and change in the social organization of these Malays in the period 1830 ...

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A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau 1992, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520080867

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A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau 1988, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520061538

Hardcover