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Author Bemmelen, Sita van

Title Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra : a patrilineal society in flux / by Sita T. van Bemmelen
Published Leiden : Brill, [2017]

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Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; v. 309
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; v. 309.
Contents Intro; Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra: A Patrilineal Society in Flux; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations, Maps, Graphics and Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Grand Narratives: Where Do Kinship and Marriage Fit In?; 1.2 The Toba Batak; 1.3 Discourse, Agency and Modernities; 1.4 Kinship: Structure, Process, and Issues; 1.5 Composition; 1.6 Sources; Part 1: A Historical Ethnography; 2 The Construction of Toba Batak Gender; 2.1 Batak Adat and Its Divine Origin; 2.2 The Origin of Mankind and the Creation of the Earth
2.3 Gendered Hierarchies2.4 The Woman as the Intermediary between Clans; 2.5 Prohibited Marriages; 2.6 The Most Coveted Union; 2.7 Reciprocal Marriage Payments; 2.8 The Right Marriage is a Fertile Marriage; 2.9 Myth and Reality: Recurrent Themes; 2.10 Toba Batak Mythology as a Reflection of Gendered Interests; 3 Customary Marriage; 3.1 Hypogamy: The Ideal and the Practice; 3.2 Reasons for Forging Marital Alliances in the Nineteenth Century; 3.3 Fathers, Daughters, and Arranged Marriages; 3.4 Courtship and Premarital Sexual Relations; 3.5 Bypassing the Fathers
3.6 Never Relinquished by Her Family of Origin3.7 The Crucial Factor: The Agency of the Daughter; 4 Fertility, Mortality and the Pinnacle of Life; 4.1 Fertility, Morbidity, and Mortality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century; 4.2 The Concept of a Blessed Life; 4.3 Male Progeny and the Journey of the Soul; 4.4 Joy and Grief; 4.5 Strategies to Avert Disaster; 4.6 The Male Strategy to Reach the Pinnacle of Life; 4.7 Gendered Odds; 5 Ruptures: Divorce and Widowhood; 5.1 Conflict, War, Mediation, and Jurisdiction; 5.2 Toba Batak Legal Terminology
5.3 Unreasonable Dislike of the Spouse and the Material Settlement of Divorce5.4 Women's Acquiescence; 5.5 Adultery and Abduction of a Married Woman; 5.6 Children Born out of Wedlock; 5.7 Levirate and Sororate: A Mixed Blessing and Men's Convenience; 5.8 Gendered Rights and Legal Competence; Part 2: Negotiations on Marriage Customs (1830-1942); 6 The Encroachment on the Batak World (1830-1883); 6.1 The Batak World around 1800; 6.2 The Invasions of the Padri and Their Impact (1825-1860); 6.3 Conversion to Christianity, Ostracism and 'Dutch Brides'; 6.4 Resistance and Conquest (1876-1883)
6.5 Changes in the Balance of Power6.6 Modes of Encroachment and Their Impact; 7 Negotiating the Future Social Order (1881-1885); 7.1 The Batak Mission's Dual Strategy for Transformation; 7.2 Rajas and Missionaries as Partners; 7.3 The Batak Mission's Aversion to the Brideprice; 7.4 The Abolition of the Brideprice Rejected (1884-1886); 7.5 Reluctant Resignation (1885-1911); 7.6 Women's Views on the Brideprice; 7.7 The Significance of the Debate; 8 Engineering Christian Toba Batak Marriage (1866-1913); 8.1 Customary and Christian Marriage
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004345751
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