Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra : a patrilineal society in flux /

Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra : a patrilineal society in flux /

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Author / Creator:	Bemmelen, Sita van, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; volume 309 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 309.
Subject:	Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) -- History. Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Kinship. Kinship -- Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara -- History. Christianity and culture -- Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara -- History. Sex role -- Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara -- History. Marriage -- Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara -- History. Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara. Christianity and culture. Ethnology. Kinship. Marriage. Sex role. Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) Indonesia -- Tapanuli Utara. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11411362

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ISBN:	9789004345744 9004345744 9789004345751
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Offers an account of changes in Toba Batak society (Sumatra, Indonesia) under the influence of Christianity and Dutch colonial rule (1861-1942). Sita van Bemmelen's research focuses on customs and customary law related to the life cycle and gender relations. The book's first part is a historical ethnography, describing society as it existed at the onset of colonial rule. The second part zooms in on the negotiations between the Toba Batak elite, the missionaries of the German Rhenish Mission and colonial administrators about the marriage customs. Each contestant had an evolving view on desirable modernity. Christianity and colonial rule changed the way the Toba Batak reproduced their patrilineal kinship system. This affected gender relations permanently"--
Other form:	Online version: Bemmelen, Sita van, author. Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra Leiden : Brill, [2017] 9789004345751

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