RT Book
T1 Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra: a patrilineal society in flux
T2 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
JF Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
A1 Bemmelen, Sita van
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1624626769
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DS632.T62
SN 9789004345744
K1 Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) : History
K1 Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) : Kinship
K1 Kinship : History : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara
K1 Christianity and culture : History : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara
K1 Sex role : History : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara
K1 Marriage : History : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara
K1 Ethnology : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara
K1 Kinship : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara : History
K1 Christianity and culture : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara : History
K1 Sex role : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara : History
K1 Marriage : Indonesia : Tapanuli Utara : History