patrilineal

Examples of matrilineal

matrilineal
The accused had tried to change the town's system of succession to the paramountcy from patrilineal to matrilineal succession.
Although the primary bond is agnatic kinship, this is tempered by relations through marriage, matrilineal ties, and shared locality.
I have critiqued matrilineal descent, divine kingship, the naturalistic fallacy concerning the origins of descent groups and the myth of real kinship.
In short, usually fields are passed on through matrilineal inheritance, and the chief's role is as judge or arbiter in dispute cases.
Traditionally, these characteristics were easy to interpret as kin interacting with kin in stable matrilineal groups.
This would only apply if the matrilineal whale species were especially affected by this process.
Consistency of values by all the five methods would indicate absence of any preference for patrilineal or matrilineal unions.
The figure described by informants simply as the maternal uncle was generally the oldest member of a matrilineage or matrilineal segment.
A larger issue that cannot be addressed in this paper is the prejudice against matrilineal-matrilocal systems as creating 'disincentives for long-term investment' by husbands (ibid.).
Today this act is remembered as a ' betrayal ' that called into question the legitimacy of the matrilineal system of labor and inheritance.
Male-biased dispersal creates groups bounded by matrilineal kinship bonds.
Although several customs governed the selection of rulers, the matrilineal principle was quite strong.
In common with the two study societies, they have a matrilineal descent system which is here divided into matri-moieties, each comprising several clans.
The survey was stratified by region, by sector and by lineality (matrilineal and non-matrilineal systems of inheritance and descent).
In the nineteenth century, anthropologists were fascinated by matrilineal descent, which they confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy.
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