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  2. Patrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side [1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin.

  3. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    The patrilineal joint-family systems and more or less equal inheritance for all son in India and China meant that there was no difference in marriage and reproduction due to birth order. In the stem-family systems of Northwest Europe however, access to marriage and reproduction wasn't equal for all sons, since only one of them would inherit ...

  4. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    This ancient matrilineal descent pattern is in contrast to the currently more popular pattern of patrilineal descent from which a family name is usually derived. The matriline of historical nobility was also called their enatic or uterine ancestry, corresponding to the patrilineal or "agnatic" ancestry.

  5. Systems of social stratification - Wikipedia

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    Within the descent group patrilineal descent lines were hierarchically organized, with descent from elder brothers invariably ranking higher than descent from younger brothers. The oldest member of the senior line (da zong) was the group's leader and the sole person who could perform rituals honouring the group's deceased founder and chief ...

  6. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

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    The separation of the patriarchal and matriarchal lines divided a family into gentes. Interbreeding was forbidden within gens (anthropology), although first cousins from separate gentes could still breed. In the pairing family, the first indications of pairing are found in families where the husband has one primary wife.

  7. Patriarchy - Wikipedia

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    Patriarchy literally means "the rule of the father" [9] [4] and comes from the Greek πατριάρχης (patriarkhēs), [10] [11] "father or chief of a race", [12] which is a compound of πατριά (patria), "lineage, descent, family, fatherland" [13] (from πατήρ patēr, "father") [14] and ἀρχή (arkhē), "domination, authority ...

  8. Although the Brothers' scrubbing worked to distort the stories' portrayal of women, it'd be tough to prove that they're to blame for all of the patriarchal forces at work in the fairy tales we know. Women are disproportionately the subjects of violence in both the 1810 and 1812 collections, and in both, they have far fewer lines of dialogue ...

  9. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples, in addition to some other Siouan-speaking people like the Omaha and Ponca, are patriarchal or patrilineal and have historically had highly defined gender roles. [41] [42] In such tribes, hereditary leadership would pass through the male line, while children are considered to belong to the father and his clan.