Caged in on the Outside : Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia /
Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, base...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The village and the marketplace: the moral structure of a Minangkabau city
- Being Minangkabau: imagining adat, Islam, and ethnic character
- The Awak people: the moral aesthetics of social unity
- Living with the devil: pure selves and a corrupting world
- Fashioning the Paribadi: indirection and spaces of the personal
- Being Muslim subjects: essential tensions and the promise of transcendence.