TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benda-Beckmann,Franz von
TI  - Property in social continuity: continuity and change in the maintenance of property relationships through time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra 
T2  - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
SN  - 9789004287174
AV  - HB715 .B45 1979
U1  - 346.5981052345.9810652 19
PY  - 1979///
CY  - The Hague
PB  - Martinus Nijhoff
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Sumatera Barat
KW  - Inheritance and succession (Adat law)
KW  - Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
KW  - Minangkabau (Indonesian people)
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-455); Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism. The author proposes a new anthropological approach to law, property and inheritance. After the description of the Minangkabau socio-political organization and the development of legal and administrative pluralism, three chapters are devoted to property and inheritance proper. First the ideal legal systems are described. Then he illustrates how the Minangkabau actually handle their property and inheritance affairs, and how the various regulating mechanisms have changed through history. Finally the different agents creating and changing legal conceptions are treated in historical perspective. In his conclusions the author shows how the traditional system of common holding and distributing of property by matrilineal descent groups is slowly being undermined through an increasing monetarization and consequent individualization of property relationships which finds its expression in the form of new legislation. This development is reflected in the conceptual system where the formerly predominant diachronic dimension of property relationships is slowly abolished and where property rights are increasingly reified
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004287174
ER  -