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In this anthropological investigation of the nature of an underdeveloped peasant economy, Joel S. Kahn attempts to develop the insights generated by Marxist theorists, by means of a concrete case study of a peasant village in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra. He accounts for the specific features of this regional economy, and, at the same time, examines the implications for it of the centuries-old European domination of Indonesia. The most striking feature of the Minangkabau economy is the predominance of petty commodity relations in agriculture, handicrafts and the local network of distribution. Dr Kahn illustrates this with material on local economic organization, which he collected in the field in the highland village of Sungai Puar, the site of a blacksmithing industry, and with published and unpublished data from other parts of Indonesia. Dr Kahn's book is unusual for its combination of a theoretical analysis of underdevelopment with a detailed regional study. It will appeal to those interested in South-east Asian studies, in development, and in neo-Marxist approaches in anthropology.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people) --- Social structure --- Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Minangkabau (Indonesian people). --- International economic relations --- Economic sociology --- Indonesia --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Menangkabau (Indonesian people) --- Ethnology --- West Sumatra (Indonesia) --- Sumatra, West (Indonesia) --- Minangkabau (Indonesia) --- Sumatra Barat (Indonesia) --- S.U.M.B.A.R. --- SUMBAR --- Provinsi Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) --- West Sumatera Province (Indonesia)

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This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the local press. It does so against the background of local governments in majority Muslim regions across Indonesia promoting and passing regulations that mandate forms of social or economic behaviour seen to be compatible with Islam. The book situates the political construction of Islamic behaviour in West Sumatra, and in Indonesia more generally, within an historical context in which rulers have in some way engaged with aspects of Islamic practice since the Islamic kingdom era. The book shows that while formal local Islamic regulations of this kind constitute a new development, their introduction has been a product of the same kinds of interactions between international, national and local elements that have characterised the relationship between Islam and politics through the course of Indonesian history. The book challenges the scholarly tendency to over-emphasise local political concerns when explaining this phenomenon, arguing that it is necessary to forefront the complex relationship between local politics and developments in the wider Islamic world. To illustrate the relationship between transnational and local Islam, the book uses detailed case studies of four domains of regulation: Islamic finance, zakat, education, and behaviour and dress, in a number of local government areas within the province.

Humanities / Arts. --- Religious Studies. --- Political Science, general. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Humanities. --- Regional planning. --- Religion (General). --- Sciences humaines --- Aménagement du territoire --- Islam --- Islam and politics --- Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) --- Politics and government --- Islam -- Indonesia -- Sumatera Barat. --- Islam and politics -- Indonesia -- Sumatera Barat. --- Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) -- Politics and government. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Politics and government. --- Politics and Islam --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Political aspects --- West Sumatra (Indonesia) --- Sumatra, West (Indonesia) --- Minangkabau (Indonesia) --- Sumatra Barat (Indonesia) --- S.U.M.B.A.R. --- SUMBAR --- Provinsi Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) --- West Sumatera Province (Indonesia) --- Religion. --- Culture --- Political science. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Political Science. --- Study and teaching. --- Religions --- Muslims --- Political science --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Islam - Indonesia - Sumatera Barat --- Islam and politics - Indonesia - Sumatera Barat --- Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) - Politics and government