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Matrilineal Nipmuc: North America: United States: Matrilineal Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico: North America: United States: Matrilineal Paul Kirchhoff [21] 1954 Keres people: North America: United States: Matrilineal Paul Kirchhoff [21] 1954 Wayuu: South America: Colombia, Venezuela: Matrilocal Matrilineal Nina S. de Friedemann [22] 1982 Zuni: North ...
The following two example cultures each follow a different pattern, however: Example 1. Members of the (matrilineal) clan culture Minangkabau do not even have a surname or family name, see this culture's own section below. In contrast, members do have a clan name, which is important in their lives although not included in the member's name.
Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by women. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege, and control of property. While those definitions apply in general English, definitions specific to anthropology and feminism differ in some respects. [1] [2]
According to Barbara Epstein, anthropologists in the 20th century criticized feminist promatriarchal views and said that "the goddess worship or matrilocality that evidently existed in many paleolithic societies was not necessarily associated with matriarchy in the sense of women's power over men. Many societies can be found that exhibit those ...
Inheritance is matrilineal, but in all aspects the husband is the head of the household. All Tuluvas practice matriarchal system of living. After marriage, it's common for husband to live at his wife's home (though this is not widely practiced in the modern era).
Primitive communism, according to both Morgan and Engels, was based in the matrilineal clan where females lived with their classificatory sisters – applying the principle that "my sister’s child is my child". Because they lived and worked together, females in these communal households felt strong bonds of solidarity with one another ...
The Hopi (in what is now the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona) are traditionally both matriarchal and matrilineal, [11] with egalitarian roles in the community, and no sense of superiority or inferiority based on sex or gender. [12]
In anthropology, a lineage is a unilineal descent group that traces its ancestry to a demonstrably shared ancestor, known as the apical ancestor. [1] [2] [3] Lineages are formed through relationships traced either exclusively through the maternal line (matrilineage), paternal line (patrilineage), or some combination of both (). [4]