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Marriage and Divorce among Malay Peasants in Kelantan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1975

Yoshihiro Tsubouchi
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Unstable marriage among Malays is well known through the studies of Firth (1966), Downs (1967), Djamour (1959), Gordon (N.D.), Swift (1958) etc. The data in these studies are mainly descriptive, containing only rough statistics. In this paper the author presents a case of stable society with high divorce rate utilizing both statistical and descriptive data collected in a Malay village of Kelantan in 1970/71. By this year a decrease of divorce has become a prevalent trend in Malaysia, and Malay villagers have begun to treat divorce with increasing sentiment of shame. It is, therefore, only in the villages remote from towns that divorce is still referred as a routine matter of life. The village of Galok, nine miles away from a small town of Pasir Mas, is such a village. The village (kampong) consists of 146 Malay households. Villagers are engaged in paddy farming, rubber tapping and tobacco cultivation.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 6 , Special Issue 2: Essays by Japanese Scholars in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University , September 1975 , pp. 135 - 150
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1975

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