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Reason and passionBook 1996 • Peletz, Michael G.
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
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, econom...A share of the harvestBook 1988 • Peletz, Michael G.
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This book is concerned with kinship, property and social history among farmers living in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Rembau district, the book argues that norms and values keyed to matrilineal descent we...