Svatební obřad v Minangkabau: reprezentace mechanismů matrilineární organizace trans-lokální komunity

• Authors: Mariana Pflegerová

Title variants

EN

Marriage rituals in Minangkabau: enactments of key principals of matrilineal social organisation in a translocal community

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article presents an ethnographic description of a cycle of marriage rituals as observed by the author in the Minangkabau village of Sulit Air, located in West Sumatra, Indonesia and provides an interpretation of what they tell us about the networks of matrilineal kinship that crisscross the community spanning from the village to the cities where its inhabitants migrate in search of economic betterment, especially some female techniques of maintenance of these networks.

Keywords

EN

Indonesia; women; kinship; matrilineal systems; ritual; marriage rituals

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-70
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mariana Pflegerová

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic