Matrilineal Kinship System

Matrilineal kinship system of the people until now by Minangkabau, placing men and women are in a different position. Do not overlap, so one or the other entrant. For example, in a marriage, women not as a vassal or jargon especially people telling her husband, but between husband and wife have their own role. Husband to be ambassador to his people, his wife in the family, the wife of a minister and his people are in the husband's family. Because a marriage in Minangkabau in the bottom is a mix of two, wife of the husband and the party. Blend the two tribes, the tribe of the tribe's wife and the husband. Husband and wife berposisi balanced, not the one under the other.