Traditional Marriage in Minangkabau

Preliminary

Stretch of this paper describes the rules and procedures of marriage in Minangkabau, West Sumatra. Minangkabau as the only region in Indonesia which matrilineal kinship system, according to her lineage.

Matrilineal kinship systems in the world who still survived until now only a small group communities on the shores of Lake Nyasa in Africa. While according to Moh. Yamin in his 6000 Year of the Red and White Minang people reputedly descendants of sailors who stayed until the 10th century in Madagascar also embraces matrilineal kinship system.

Seminar on History and Affirming Culture A Definition

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BY KAMARDI RAIS DT PANJANG SIMULIE

Thirty years ago, who said Minang people, precisely on the date of August 1, 1970, I noted in my diary saying an Indonesian archaeologist, Dr. Soekmono. He said, "Awareness of history is very thin urang crew." Many historical relics are found in this area is left damaged and abandoned. Yet those things have value that can reveal the history of the Minangkabau of high archeological history.

Dr. Speech. Soekmono was delivered to us when releasing tired under a frangipani tree in the tomb complex of Datuk Tan Gurhano in Pariangan Padangpanjang Tejo. Pariangan Villages located at the foot of Mount Merapi which is believed as the oldest country in Minangkabau as told by the books of Tambo.

Minangkabau Cultural Face of Foreign Cultures

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BY KAMARDI RAIS DT PANJANG SIMULIE

Text this makes us to be on the first two sisi.Sisi recommend to look at where we stand now and what should we do in the face of foreign cultural influence. The second side requires us to recognize how far the influence of foreign culture that struck our country, especially the Minangkabau.

Indeed many people feel anxious state of the world today who are in the era of globalization or the fast growing information age. The result is a shift in values globally. In the midst of such turbulent times, many people feel too insecure to deal with that shake his hand.

Everywhere, from daksina to paksina, from the East to the maghrib, from city to village, from the field of seminars, discussions, workshops, and so people are talking about an era of globalization or the information era.

Globalization and Traditional Culture

BY KAMARDI RAIS DT PANJANG SIMULIE

Contradictions are very rich in Turkey represents the geographic location as a link between Europe to the Eastern World. Foreign Correspondent Newspapers Washington Post, Edward Cody wrote, "The Priest in the tower (the mosque), look east, toward Mecca, while the businessman from his office that scratch the sky looking west, toward Brussels.

The Prime Minister Turgut Ozal is a business-oriented technocrat and a devout Muslim. When petitions Turkey will join the Common Market, the young women in college envelop their heads with a scarf that had once been banned. Registration in Muslim schools increased six-fold in fifteen years. Which one will win? Revival of Islamic or European Society? Or a combination of creative? Similarly Aburdene Patricia and John Naisbitt, futurist who again in his famous ngetop Megatrends 2000.