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matrilineal, a.|mætrɪˈlɪnɪəl|
[f. matri- + lineal a. 2.]
Of, pertaining to, or based on (kinship with) the mother or the female line; recognizing kinship with and descent through females.
1904N. W. Thomas in Man LIII. 84 Mr. Hill-Tout argues that totemism originates in a patrilineal just as much as in a matrilineal state of society. 1906― Kinship Organisations & Group Marriage Austral. 30 Membership of a phratry depends on birth and is taken directly from the mother (matrilineal descent) or father (patrilineal descent). 1914W. H. R. Rivers Kinship & Social Organisation ii. 40 The people of Buin still practice matrilineal descent. 1921Edin. Rev. July 163 His discovery of matrilineal institutions in Europe. 1946Nature 28 Sept. 457/2 It is clear that the ancient Chamorro had an elaborate social organisation with matrilineal clans and village chiefs whose power was based mainly on inherited wealth and monopolies. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthrop. ii. 29 According to Bachofen, there was first everywhere promiscuity, then a matrilineal and matriarchal social system, and only late in the history of man did this system give way to a patrilineal and patriarchal one. 1969Times 22 Oct. (Ghana Suppl.) p. vii/3 The women have legal rights which would be the envy of any Englishwoman. They own property absolutely and the matrilineal system—inheritance through the women—means that the children belong to the mother's family.
Hence matriˈlineally adv.
1907Athenæum 20 Apr. 477/1 The method of reckoning descent matrilineally. 1937Nature 20 Feb. 328/1 The husband in such a group, finding property to descend matrilineally, would try to provide for his portionless sister's family. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 367/1 In a patrilineally organized society a man must also have kinship relations through his mother, and mutatis mutandis in a matrilineally organized society.
Add: ˌmatrilineˈality n.
1961D. F. Aberle in Schneider & Gough Matrilineal Kinship xvii. 656 Seldom do they raise the question of the circumstances which give rise to or perpetuate matrilineality—or any other form of descent system. 1970K. Millett Sexual Politics (1971) i. ii. 25 Matrilineality..does not constitute an exception to patriarchal rule. |