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Places like home : Islam, matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau

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  • "Islam, matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau"@en

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  • "This dissertation is a history of the changing definitions of intimacy, gender and family relationships, and home among the Minangkabau, the world's largest matrilineal Muslim society. In it I analyze local interpretations and negotiations of identity and Islam in a setting that is often seen as the periphery of the Ummat Islam (Islamic World), making use of sources overlooked by Dutch colonizers and other scholars. These sources, particularly Arabic-script Jawi texts and handwritten, colonial schoolbooks (schoolschriften), did not necessarily engage the West as the overriding cultural and hegemonic presence in Minangkabau daily life. Beginning with the Padri Wars of the 1830s (the Wahabi-inspired Islamic reformist civil war that gave the Dutch the opportunity to annex West Sumatra), up through the failed communist "Silungkang" uprising of 1927, I try to understand, on an intimate level, the negotiation and reconciliation of Islam and a society in which women controlled the household. I discuss the first women's newspapers in Indonesia, and consider how they facilitated the entry of Minangkabau women into public and political life. Minangkabau people negotiated changes in Islam, western colonialism and "progress" (kemajuan), and a contested idea of "tradition." I trace the creation of the concept moderen and its alternative position in both Islamic and secularist discourse. And I uncover texts that reveal intimate negotiations of gender relations as the Minangkabau longhouse--the rumah gadang--was attacked and transformed during the colonial period. It was the everyday questioning of fundamental and seemingly essential cultural institutions that gave the Minangkabau Pergerakan (the political movements of the early twentieth century) particular energy, and made West Sumatra the spawning ground for so many Indonesian leaders. In engaging questions of gender and family, of religious and secular textual interpretation, and of everyday life, this dissertation provides what I hope is a novel view of history and Islam in Southeast Asia, and one that breaks down nationalism as the overriding narrative of Southeast Asian history."

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  • "Places like home : Islam, matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau"@en
  • "Places like home : Islam, matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau"
  • "Places like home: Islam, matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau"
  • "Places like home : Islam, matriliny, and history of family in Minangkabau"
  • "Places like home : Islam, Matriliny, and the history of family in Minangkabau"

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