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In everydays speaking, the Minangkabau people will angry if someone call them as people 'who don't know the Four'. In their mind just only 'the four leg or anim
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It has always been a matter of national pride that independence came to Indonesia not as the result of a negotiated transfer of sovereignty, though the process
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Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that t
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The driving force of Minangkabau history arises from the struggle to build a balanced social order on a convergence of seemingly contradictory social and cultur