Book
Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1996 • Pages:
By: Peletz, Michael G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses socioeconomic changes that have occurred in one Negeri Sembilan Malayan village in the context of broader government policies implemented since the advent of colonialism in 1830. The focus is on the ways in which political, economic and religious changes affected the structure of prestige and various aspects of kinship, marriage, and sexuality (especially sexual impropriety). The central argument of the book is that Negeri Sembilan representations bearing on gender and kinship are in many respects contradictory where in official cultural rules vary from actual everyday practices. As a consequence, changes observed in gender relations and kinship structures have involved less a breakdown of longstanding cultural meanings than a series of highly selective modification of elements of the system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Social personality
- Ethnopsychology
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Revelation and divination
- Religious experience
- Theory of disease
- Menstruation
- Status, role, and prestige
- Mode of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Childbirth
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Sex and marital offenses
- Kin relationships
- Rule of descent
- Localized kin groups
- Lineages
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Family relationships
- Ingroup antagonisms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malays
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rembau district, State of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael G. Peletz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-394) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94045698
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Malays (Asian people)--Kinship--Malaysia--Negeri Sembilan
- Malays (Asian people)--Malaysia--Negeri Sembilan--Social conditions
- Gender identity--Malaysia--Negeri Sembilan
- Sex role--Malaysia--Negeri Sembilan
- Matrilineal kinship--Malaysia--Negeri Sembilan
- Negeri Sembilan--Social life and customs