Women and Culture Between Malay Adat and Islam

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this anthropological study, the author argues persuasively that an imported Islamic orientation toward gender is working at cross purposes in Malaysia with the indigenous value system: adat. She shows how the Islamic overlay has upset the traditional Malay sexual equilibrium and how native cultural mores are now being reasserted.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780813385198
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	15 Oct 1992
DEWEY:	305.309595
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	255
Weight:	-1g
Height:	230mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	19mm