Pakpak adat and kinship terminology; an assessment of their meaning and mutual relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2882092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A C Viner (1. [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 137 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-165 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003513 |
| OpenAlex | W1983084235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article will explore the meaning of the term (currently used by nearly all indigenous ethnic groups in Indonesia and Malaysia) in Pakpak Batak society by establishing a connection between and certain features of the Pakpak kinship system. Pakpak is the sum of social rules verbalized by Pakpak society. Today, many of these rules are defunct and others are vestiges of a once highly refined system. Formerly the Pakpak possessed a system of matrilateral cross-cousin marriage in which wife-taking patrilineages (anakberru) gave material wealth to their wife-giving lineages (kula kula or puang) in exchange for women and spiritual sanction. This article will suggest that formerly adat was designed to express and propagate this asym metric prescriptive alliance system. The discussion is divided into four sections
Epistemology · Genealogy · Indigenous · Kinship · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Sociology · Terminology · Wife · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2020 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |