matrilineality

Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line.

Matrilineality is a way of identifying kinship ancestry through the mother or female line.

Matrilineality here includes kinship and social organization, inheritance and property rights.

Both patrilineality and matrilineality are types of unilineal descent.

The Ossan belong to a matrilocal society, and descent is traced from the mother (see matrilineality).

The Torah does not explicitly discuss the conferring of Jewish status through matrilineality.

Japan also tried to change the social organization in the islands from Matrilineality to the Japanese Patriarchal system, but with no success.

The Psharodis were temple stewards, and practiced matrilineality.

Pueblos, among whom "matrilineality ... seemed to be associated with matrilocality"

For clarity and brevity, exceptions such as adoption will be ignored, while clan names are handled in the matrilineality article.

Matrilineality, in which descent is traced through the female line, is sometimes conflated with historical matriarchy.

Matrilineality is a form of kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is traced through his or her mother's lineage.

Matrilineality in Judaism is the view that people born of a Jewish mother are themselves Jewish.

The Tuareg are Muslim, but mixed with a "heavy dose" of their pre-existing beliefs including matrilineality.

One of the central concerns in the novel is an exploration of the transmission of knowledge, genetics, and emotions through matrilineality.

Imposition of Western-style familialism on other cultures has been disruptive to traditional non-nuclear family forms such as matrilineality.

Arguments also have been made that matrilineality lay behind various fairy tale plots which may contain the vestiges of folk traditions not recorded.

Matrilineality, including Matrilineal surname section.

See the above-mentioned main article Matrilineality in Judaism for more-complete context and sources for this whole section.

Matrilineality determined the royal lineage in Ancient Egypt for over three thousand years, but many more males reigned than females.

This perception was not seriously challenged until the 18th century when Jesuit missionaries found matrilineality in native North American peoples.

Herlihy found in Kuri a trend toward matriliny and a correlation with matrilineality, while some patriarchal norms also existed.

Jains attribute their matrilineality to Bhutala Pandya, a legendary king of unknown antiquity.

An alien born out of wedlock is automatically Greek if the mother is Greek (see matrilineality).

Her aim was the reintroduction of matrilineality, and her writings expressed a veneration for the mother, in physical as well as spiritual form.