Women, land, and labor: Negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community

Ethnology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 277-293

  Blackwood, Evelyn ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matriliny; Minangkabau; Peasants; Sharecropping; Sumatra; Wage labor

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL LABOUR; CULTURAL FACTORS; KINSHIP; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE;

INDONESIA, SUMATRA, WEST;

EID: 0031462817     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3774038     Document Type: Article

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