Webs of Power: Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 4

Where this source is used

• Adat can encompass customs, beliefs, norms, and laws; translating it only as ‘customary law’ would narrow the practices examined by the sources.

  • supports · chapter 1, p. 1, opening paragraph

• Blackwood argues from one late-twentieth-century village that formal titles alone did not describe the distribution of gendered power.

  • supports · chapter 2, pp. 46–48, analysis of speaking authority, consensus, and action; chapter 8, pp. 189–190, relation-specific model of gendered power

• Blackwood reports men claiming formal kin authority in the village where she observed senior women controlling land.

  • supports · chapter 2, pp. 40–48, especially pp. 46–48 on titled men’s formal authority and consensus; chapter 8, p. 190 on senior women’s control of land

• Blackwood reports senior women controlling land in the Minangkabau village she studied.

  • supports · chapter 8, p. 190, paragraph beginning with senior women’s control of land and others bargaining for access