The Minangkabau
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Sheree recommended that I leave the steamy coast and visit Bukittinggi, a
hill town famous for the unique Minangkabau expression of Islam. Two hours by
car from Padang, its main streets are lined with restaurants, jazz bars and
fast-food joints. There were constant calls to prayer from the great mosque,
and behind them persistent tunes from ice cream trucks. Otherwise, since the
2002 bombings more than a thousand miles away in Bali, this once-thriving and
still-fascinating tourist center has been far too quiet.
Yusmarni Djalius, a professor at Padang's Andalas University, had spoken to
me of Bukittinggi as the heart of the world's largest matrilineal society, the
Minangkabau. "High property" among the Minangkabau -- the land and the long,
buffalo-horned houses that best establish cultural identity and authority -- is
always inherited by women. And Djalius said Minangkabau husbands are in fact
considered invited guests in their wives' homes. They can earn money and buy
"low property" for themselves, but they understand it will rarely approach the
pedigree, or the bulk, of what their wives have inherited and will pass down to
their daughters.
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selengkapnya.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012600613.html
Komentar.
Sayang reportasenya kurang menceritakan keindahan alam Minangkabau.
Sementara foto-foto juga tak ada, kecuali pelabuhan kecil di Padang.
(tak disebut nama pelabuhan itu)
duta
Sukseskan Pulang Basamo 2008
visit: www.west-sumatra.com
Sukseskan Pulang Basamo se Dunia, Juni 2008.
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