Matriliny and Migration
Kato, Tsuyoshi![Matriliny and Migration](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/312/3120661/CHSBZCOP033120661.jpg)
The Minangkabau, who are from the mountainous region of western Sumatra, have long been a tangle of paradoxes to the outsider. Ardent believers in Islam - a partially orientated religion - the Minangkabau are one of the few remaining matrilineal groups in the world. A well-educated and enterprising people, they continue to uphold a seemingly archaic kinship system. They have always been highly mobile, yet their strong sense of ethnic identity ...