CSAC MONOGRAPHS 4

South-East Asia Series

Kinship, Property and Inheritance in Kerinci, Central Sumatra

C.W. Watson

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing and the Centre of South-East Asian Studies University of Kent at Canterbury

1992

Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgements i List of Maps and Tables vii List of Photographs viii
• Introduction & Chapter 1 The Background
  Introduction html version 1
  Chapter 1 The Background html version 8
• Illustrations to Ch 1
• Chapter 2 The Conventions of Kinship 26
• Illustrations to Ch 2
• Chapter 3 The Developmental Cycle 74
• Illustrations to Ch 3
• Chapter 4 The Village community and its Land 122
• Illustrations to Ch 4
• Chapter 5 Land Tenure 153
• Chapter 6 Inheritance 184
• Epilogue 214
• 
  Appendices
• 1. Affinal Terms 217
• 2. A Wedding Ceremony 220
• 3. An Example of Current Procedure in the Sale of Land 225
• 4. The Allocation of Shares in a Water-Mill
  Appendices 1-4 pdf 228
• 5. The Case of Daulat vs Mat Kokoh 233
• Glossary 237
• Bibliography
  Appendix 5, Glossary and Bibliography pdf 246

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