Definition of Matrifocal. Meaning of Matrifocal. Synonyms of Matrifocal

- A matrifocal family structure is one where mothers head families, and fathers play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children. In 1956...
- socialization. Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal...
- Matriarchies may also be confused with matrilineal, matrilocal, and matrifocal societies. While some may consider any non-patriarchal system to be matriarchal...
- patriarchy in the Early Bronze Age, this may indicate a rare patriarchal to matrifocal transition. There is evidence of matrilineal royal descent, from maternal...
- p. 120. ISBN 978-1-351-52186-4. Smith, Raymond T. (2014-04-23). The Matrifocal Family: Power, Pluralism and Politics. Routledge. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-136-65959-1...
- to be ****ociated with matrilocality" Siraya Tlingit Vanatinai Sinixt Matrifocal family Neolocal residence Patrilocal residence Yobai Night hunting Paleolithic...
- relationship Clan Cohabitation Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship Descent Household forms and residence Extended Matrifocal Matrilocal Neolocal Nuclear Patrilocal...
- preparing wine. Many of the plains indigenous peoples were matrilineal/matrifocal societies. A man married into a woman's family after a courtship period...
- relationship Clan Cohabitation Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship Descent Household forms and residence Extended Matrifocal Matrilocal Neolocal Nuclear Patrilocal...
- Household Nuclear family Extended family Conjugal family Immediate family Matrifocal family First-degree relatives Parent mother father Child son daughter...