... . 104 Grieder, “Communism,” p. 207. 105 Friedman, Revolution , p. 119. VOL. XXXVIII, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1978 Matriliny, Marxism, and the Birth of the Communist Party in Kerala, 1930 1940 ROBIN JEFFREY IN 1957, when Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh were consolidating...

...Nancy M. Tanner Matriliny and Migration: Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia . By Tsuyoshi Kato . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1982 . 253 pp. Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $22.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Michael G. Peletz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia . By Maila Stivens . St. Leonard's, N.S.W. : Allen and Unwin , 1996 . xiii, 316 pp. $29–95 (paper). Distributed by Paul...

..., suggestions, and semantic collocations. It will be an invaluable tool in future descriptive, historical, and comparative research on Khmer, and on Mon-Khmer languages in general. FRANKLIN E. HUFFMAN Cornell University Matriliny and Migration: Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia. By TSUYOSHIKATO...

... that focuses on economic and political relations requires a clearer theoretical framework than simply the implication of transitions from matriliny to patriliny (pp. 52, 53) or caste to class (pp. 70, 115, 236). Furthermore, although the authors are careful to disclaim the existence of an actual matriarchy...

... and relies in part on unexamined assumptions for its argument regarding the cultural sources of women's power. A study that focuses on economic and political relations requires a clearer theoretical framework than simply the implication of transitions from matriliny to patriliny (pp. 52, 53) or caste...

... and reasons he gives for the latter claim are decisive; for the former the matter is not so clear, because the constituents of matriliny are less thoroughly discussed. Like other recent students of Minangkabau, Peletz finds that matriliny in Negeri Sembilan is not being transformed into either patriliny...

... and understanding at all levels of the society is needed.. . . Her book will, I hope, help to bring this fruit to bear, and we should all thank her for her care, great effort, high intelligence, and graceful writing. R O B E R T L. B R O W N University of California, Los Angeles Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual...

... Politics in Southeast Asia , edited by Ong A. and Peletz M. . Berkeley : University of California Press . Blackwood Evelyn. 1999 . “Big Houses and Small Houses: Doing Matriliny in West Sumatra.” Ethnos 64 ( 1 ): 32 – 56 . Blackwood Evelyn. 2000 . Webs of Power: Women, Kin...

... century commercialization of Philippine agriculture. Matriliny, Marxism, and the Birth of the Communist Party in Kerala, 1930-1940 ROBIN JEFFREY Pages 77-98 Why has communism flourished in some parts of Asia and not in others? Examining the case of Kerala, this paper argues that, in India at least, social...

... development," partly because McAllister, like Stivens, "explicitly draws on Joel Kahn's work for some of her ordering concepts" (p. 253, n. 3). And yet, curiously, Stivens devotes the first 100 or so pages of Matriliny and Modernity and many other sections of the book to a presentation of material that has...

... entertains the long-rejected assumption that the oldest and most primitive societies were matriarchal and, a fortiori, that there was such a thing as matriarchy, when what did, and does, in fact, occur is only matriliny. Quoting from E. O. James, Fraser, and Bachofen, and bracketing them with modern scholars...

... life reflects the ambivalent influence of changes over her status, aspirations, and accomplishments. For once, someone not identified as a "women's historian" uses women, who constitute more than half the population of Kerala, as exemplary individuals. Although matriliny, which was most common among...

.... Mark Hobart poses the question: "Is there kinship in Balino rhetorical query here, for he supplies a skeptical answer. C. W. Watson's analysis of Sumatra's Kerinci should be read in conjunction with the paper by Stivens, for it, too, involves the problem of from what perspective to view matriliny...

... of matriliny also benefits from the kind of deconstructive treatment Peletz gives it. LYNN L. THOMAS Pomona College Lan Na Textiles: Yuan hue Lao. By SONGSAK PRANGWATTHANAKUN and PATRICIA CHEESMAN. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Center for the Promotion of Arts and Culture, 1987. 108 pp. Textiles as Texts: Arts ofHmong...

... apparently entertains the long-rejected assumption that the oldest and most primitive societies were matriarchal and, a fortiori, that there was such a thing as matriarchy, when what did, and does, in fact, occur is only matriliny. Quoting from E. O. James, Fraser, and Bachofen, and bracketing them...

... in transferring control over land and labor and, through these, also formal authority from one male affine (father-in-law) to another (son-in-law). Potter concludes her study with three brief paragraphs which suggest both the novelty of this structural model (as opposed to usual definitions) of matriliny...

... organized by Leela Gulati and Arlie Hochschild at the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum in 1998. The project was designed to explore what the editors term the emotional lines of matriliny within the social structure of patriliny (p. 10). The contributors were asked to approach this question...

... and the Common Good , ed. Armando Salvatore and Eickelman Dale F. . Leiden : Brill . Dube Leela . 1967 . Matriliny and Islam: Religion and Society in the Laccadives . Delhi : National Publishing House . Eickelman Dale F. , and Armando Salvatore . 2002 . “ The Public Sphere...

... from elsewhere in the region, matriliny and the inclusion of land and housing in women's dowries are regionally specific. They are associated with the residential clustering of sisters, which he links to the greater autonomy experienced by women in this area than in others of the subcontinent...