By Dick van der Meij
The volume contains eleven papers written by internationally renowned scholars tackling the relationship between Islam and State in countries geographically as far apart and as different in culture as Iran, Turkey and Egypt in the Middle East, Indonesia and Malaysia in Southeast Asia, and Cameroon in Africa. Most papers deal with the tension that may be inherent in the differences in outlook between a government that has to cope with the practicalities of everyday social and political life, and groups in society which have their own distinct ideas about what form an ideal Islamic society should take. Contributions by B. Lewis, A.K.S. Lambton, H.L. Beck, A.H. de Groot, E.J. Zürcher, C. van Dijk, M. van Bruinessen, J.J.G. Jansen, O. Farouk Bajunid, R. Peters and J.C.M. van Santen are included.
Volume 42: Signe Howell (ed.), For the Sake of Our Future. Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia, ISBN 90-73782-59-7
Cycles of birth, death, and rebirths are promoted through the deliberate taking
of life - whether actual or symbolic. This book seeks to fill both ethnographic
and theoretical lacunae in the study of sacrifice by focusing on such practices
in nineteen different societies in Eastern Indonesia. This volume comprises a
selection of revised papers originally presented at a conference held at the
University of Oslo in 1992 entitled Sacrifice in Eastern Indonesia.
Contributions are included by Maribeth Erb, Olaf H. Smedal, Gregory Forth,
Signe Howell, E.D. Lewis, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Penelope Graham, R.H. Barnes,
Brigitte Renard-Clarmagirand, Danielle C. Geirnaert, Janet Hoskins, H.J. Seran,
Roy Ellen, Valerio Valeri, Benno Grzimek, Jos Platenkamp, Susan Mckinnon,
and Cecile Barraud and Claudine Friedberg
Volume 45: Joke van Reenen, Central Pillars of the house. Sisters, wives, and mothers in a rural community in Minangkabau, West Sumatra. ISBN 90- 73782-66X
This study is about matriliny and gender. The principal aim is to examine the views, experiences, and strategies of Minangkabau village women as actors within networks of family and kin, in the context of a rapidly changing environment. The women are revealed in their key roles of mothers, wives, and sisters in relation to their male and female siblings. The female views are being set in the framework of observable, socio-economic developments over the past one or two centuries both in the local community and the wider regional context.
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