Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra

by Lynn L. Thomas

Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world's largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward looking.

Focusing on Minangkabau proper, and treating several adjacent areas as well, this collection examines the resilience and adaptability of the Minangkabau in the face of outside political and economic pressures and of distortions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896801276
• ISBN13: 9780896801271
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.1"