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Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy
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Sanday’s University of Pennsylvania author page presenting the book’s preface and interpretive framing.
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Where this source is used
Sanday interprets Minangkabau matriarchaat through maternal meanings and women’s social centrality.
- supports · ‘From the Preface’, paragraphs beginning ‘The excision of matriarchy’ and ‘How the Minangkabau conceive of their world’
Sanday rejects ‘rule by women’ as the only meaning of matriarchy.
- supports · ‘From the Preface’, paragraph beginning ‘My journey into the heart of the Minangkabau matriarchaat’