Book
Malay peasant society in Jelebu
Athlone Press; Humanities Press • (29) • Published In 1965 • Pages: x, 181
By: Swift, M. G. (Michael Godfrey).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is concerned with change and continuity in the social organization of Malasian peasants. The focus is on the impact of economic changes, with particular reference to the expansion of rubber trees, on the materilieal kinship system of Malayans living in the Jelebu district of Negri Sembilan state. The central theme of the book shows the gradual declining of the matrilineal kinship system for a wide variety of reasons. The most important of these include the rise of political islam and expansion of global market forces. The first dislocated traditional (adat) rules which previously enhanced Malayan womens' roles in land ownership, inheritance and family life. The later generated tension that tended to replace rice, which had been villagers' prime choice for diet and its cultural values, with highly lucrative, but male dominated, rubber trees.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Cereal agriculture
- Special crops
- Burial practices and funerals
- Water supply
- Social relationships and groups
- Territorial hierarchy
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Kin relationships
- Regulation of marriage
- Buying and selling
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Research and development
- Legal norms
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Community heads
- 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
- 1954-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jelebu district, Negri Sembilan State, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by M.G. Swift
- 'Shortened version of a thesis presented ... in the University of London.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65014844
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Malaysia--Kampong Jelebu (Negeri Sembilan)