matrilineal descent

collocation in English

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descent
noun
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/dɪˈsent/us
/dɪˈsent/
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in ...
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In common with the two study societies, they have amatrilinealdescentsystem which is here divided into matri-moieties, each comprising several clans.
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In the nineteenth century, anthropologists were fascinated bymatrilinealdescent, which they confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy.
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Religion andmatrilinealdescentand inheritance operated as an ethnic boundary in this sense.
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I have critiquedmatrilinealdescent, divine kingship, the naturalistic fallacy concerning the origins of descent groups and the myth of real kinship.
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As a reproductive strategy,matrilinealdescentonly makes sense when a supplementary source of wives for the male members of the group is available.
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Families of this type are related to each other in the patrilineal and in thematrilinealdescentgroups through blood and marriage ties.
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On the other hand, he clings to the idea thatmatrilinealdescent, once developed, might spread elsewhere without any such motive.
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Property is inalienable and owned by houses (matrilinealdescentgroups).
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They share a very similar culture, withmatrilinealdescent.
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The system is associated with groups that have a strong tradition ofmatrilinealdescent.
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Thismatrilinealdescentpattern is in contrast to the more common pattern of patrilineal descent from which a family name is usually derived.
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A lineage is defined as all those related bymatrilinealdescentfrom a particular ancestress.
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A "lineage" is defined as all those related bymatrilinealdescentfrom a particular ancestress.
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Both groups have exogamousmatrilinealdescentgroups (consanguineous kin groups that acknowledge a traditional bond of common descent in the maternal line and within which they do not marry).
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Membership is determined bymatrilinealdescent.
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