matrilineal

Since that argument in turn largely draws on comparative studies of 'matrilineal' societies, it is obvious that the strength of Schroter's conclusions depends on whether or not the Ngadha--according to accepted criteria--can be said to be matrilineal.

The teacher spirits of the core members are mostly traditional spirits, such as the guardian spirit of the village (phi sua ban), the matrilineal ancestor spirit (phi pu ya), or the tutelary spirits of the traditional city state (phi sua muang), and there are a number of superior spirits of the ruling class who deliver divine messages (phi chao nai).

Of related significance are "matrilineal descent systems" and matrilineal societies that "embodied an idea of social organization that privileged the personal and social power of women," as well as African societies that had patrilineal forms of organization.

The Makonde are matrilineal. Legend says that their first sculpture was carved by a man of a woman.

She may be the ugly aspect of the matrilineal spiritual base of all societies.

The region was matrilineal, noncentralized, and unsuited to indirect rule.

They followed the matrilineal system of property inheritance.

Elements of original African culture (e.g., the trance states stemming from possession by the spirits; matrilineal family systems; survival of a gift culture) continued in Brazil, but agricultural gods died out among slaves who did not own and farm their own land.

A major problem is that, despite their improved land tenure rights, widows remain vulnerable to losing important household and agricultural assets to relatives of their deceased husbands through the practice of "property-grabbing", which is justified by reference to matrilineal inheritance practices.

European men intermarried into Creek societies, and children of intermarriage would obtain status through matrilineal kinship systems.

Khasi women in India give children their names, and girls inherit family property in matrilineal communities.