Caged in on the Outside : : Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia / / Gregory M. Simon; ed. by Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Simon, Gregory M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chandler, David P.,; Kipp, Rita Smith,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ; 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration

Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, base...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Village and the Marketplace: the Moral Structure of a Minangkabau City
• 2. Being Minangkabau: Imagining Adat, Islam, and Ethnic Character
• 3. The Awak People: The Moral Aesthetics of Social Unity
• 4. Living with the Devil: Pure Selves and a Corrupting World
• 5. Fashioning the Paribadi: Indirection and Spaces of the Personal
• 6. Being Muslim Subjects: Essential Tensions and the Promise of Transcendence
• Coda Subjective Tensions, Flourishing, and Multidimensional Selves
• Notes
• References
• Index
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