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matrilineal

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matrilineal
relating to descent or kinship through the female line


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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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