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matrilineal relating to descent or kinship through the female line How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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First, widespread institutional rape necessitated matrilineal genealogies. In this matrilineal society women are the real owners of the land, and somehow they knew then that they would pay the biggest price. The goal is to acknowledge patrifiliation to the father as complementary to matrilineal descent (Forster 1985:150-67; 1988:94-5). |
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