matrilineal essay thouhts

• what i find most iteresting is how women are seen as leaders of the home and social backbone, yet they are in an islamic culture. Islam tend to favor men and yet in this articular culture women are important. That is a very big conradtiction that they somehow are able to live with in harmony and without conflict.
• adat is their set of rules and belifs that give them guidelines for their daily lif and how to interact with the supernatural. It can be analogous to the ten commandments of the Christian faith. It is what gives their culture its structure and is what keeps it going.  It allows them to combine the natural and supernatural.
• I think we could learn acceptance and compatibility from them. They re able to combine 2 different cultures, one that is patriarchal and one that is matriarchal, opposites, and yet it works out peacfully. In America we have the first ammendmant which allows freedom of religion, but especially in the south, there is a lot of tension between religions. Christianity is the primary religion of the south and when someone is not of that faith, there tends to be conflict. I think we should learn from their peacful cooperation between religions.