Definition of Matrilinial. Meaning of Matrilinial. Synonyms of Matrilinial

- female superiority is fading". Schlegel said the Hopi "were and still are matrilinial" and "the household ... was matrilocal". Schlegel explains why there...
- Some Biblical scholars suspect that the Elohist account offers both matrilinial and patrilinial descent from Levites in order to magnify the religious...
- dead matrikin have impaired her fertility." To correct the balance of matrilinial descent and marriage, the Isoma ritual dramatically placates the deceased...
- settled at Prayikkara and other group settled in Kozhanchery. Thus three matrilinial branches of the Kolathiri family settled in Travancore and established...
- it upon itself to choose "the Polish king" from among the dynasties' matrilinial descendants. Poland's successive kings granted privileges to the nobility...
- doi:10.2307/3622599. JSTOR 3622599. Loeb, E. M. (1933). "Patrilinial and Matrilinial Organization in Sumatra: The Batak and the Minangkabau". American Anthropologist...
- restrictions on consanguineous marriages, first outlawing marriage to matrilinial first cousins, then extending to second cousins and ultimately expanding...
- Mandinka migrants entered the area from the southeast. They were led by a matrilinial clan known as the Gelwar. Father Henry Gravrand reports an oral tradition...
- from the Malabar region. In the pre-democratic era, Marumakkathayam-matriliniality was widely prevalent among the natives of North Malabar and included...