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If a patriarchy is a political system ruled by men, what would a matriarchy be—a political system ruled by women? anthropologist peggy sanday, who investigated these questions among the minangkabau of west sumatra, found that

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Anthropologist Peggy Sanday found that even if matriarchies be in existent, they are not reflect images of patriarchies as, at least for the Minangkabau, because for them both men and women are understood as supportive partners for the corporate good.
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