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Within the academic discipline of cultural anthropology, according to the OED, matriarchy is a "culture or community in which such a system prevails" [4] or a "family, society, organization, etc., dominated by a woman or women" without reference to laws that require women to dominate. [4]
The Serer people of Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania are bilineal, but matrilineality (tiim, in Serer) is very important in their culture, and is well preserved. [2] [3] There are a multitude of Serer maternal clans with their various history and origins.
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He postulated an archaic "mother-right" within the context of a primeval Matriarchal religion or Urreligion. Bachofen became an important precursor of 20th-century theories of matriarchy, such as the Old European culture postulated by Marija Gimbutas from the 1950s, and the field of feminist theology and "matriarchal studies" in 1970s feminism.
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
A matriarchal religion is a religion that emphasizes a goddess or multiple goddesses as central figures of worship and spiritual authority. The term is most often used to refer to theories of prehistoric matriarchal religions that were proposed by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen , Jane Ellen Harrison , and Marija Gimbutas , and later ...
The Goddess and Her Heros. Matriarchal Religion in Mythology, Fairy-Tales and Poetry. Anthony Publishing Company, Stow USA 1995. (Die Göttin und ihr Heros – a study in matriarchal religion, Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1980–1997.) Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe. [14] Peter Lang Inc, 2013, ISBN ...
(in French) Marie-Angélique Savané, Les projets pour les femmes en milieu rural au Sénégal, Genève, Bureau International du Travail, 1983, 139 p. ISBN 92-2-203394-9 (in French) F. Sow, Le pouvoir économique des femmes dans le département de Podor, Saint-Louis, SAED, 1990