Women, Land, and Labor: Negotiating Clientage and Kinship in a Minangkabau Peasant Community
Author(s)
Blackwood, Evelyn
Abstract
Matrilineal kinship relations play an important role in the persistence of nonwage agricultural labor relationships among the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia. Patron-client connections are determined by kin ties, and these relations help to