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The social organization of the Cabécar people of Costa Rica is predicated on matrilineal clans in which the mother is the head of household. Each matrilineal clan controls marriage possibilities, regulates land tenure, and determines property inheritance for its members.
Una sociedad matrilineal es la que posee un sistema de descendencia que se define por la línea materna. En éstas, el individuo pertenece al grupo por su vinculación con las mujeres del mismo, es decir, la familia matrilineal incluye a la madre, la abuela materna, la madre de esta, etc. y a sus descendientes por línea femenina.
Matrilineal society, group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines. A lineage is a group of individuals who trace descent from a common ancestor; thus, in a matrilineage, individuals are related as kin through the female line of descent.
- Anjana Narayan
The following list includes societies that have been identified as matrilineal or matrilocal in ethnographic literature. "Matrilineal" means kinship is passed down through the maternal line. [1] The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are Matrilineal. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana.
15 de jul. de 2019 · Out of 1291 populations in the Ethnographic Atlas, there are 160 matrilineal populations, 590 patrilineal populations, 362 bilateral populations, 52 duolateral populations, 50 populations with mixed descent, 48 ambilineal populations and 12 populations with quasi-lineages. 17 populations are missing data and are not included. Download figure.
- Alexandra Surowiec, Kate T. Snyder, Nicole Creanza
- 2019
2 de mar. de 2023 · ILLUSTRATION by Sophy Hollington. MAGAZINE. THE BIG IDEA. A man’s world? Not according to biology or history. For proof, we can look to the many matrilineal societies dotted all over the world....
In the study of matrilineal societies, classic kinship theory develops normative structures to contextualize heterosexuality and male domination, failing to include the wider social nuances and connotations. Those normative structures form the rhetoric of what Blackwood calls “the specter of the Patriarchal Man,” which persistently ...
