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Matrilocal Matrilineal Jívaro: South America: West Amazon: Rafael Karsten: 1926 Jews in the Kibbutzim: Asia: Israel [8] Matrilineal: Judith Buber Agassi [9] 1989 Karen: Asia: Burma: Matrilocal Matrilineal Harry Ignatius Marshall [10] 1922 Kerinci: Asia: Indonesia: Matrilocal Matrilineal C.W. Watson [11] 1992 Khasi: Asia: India: Matrilocal ...
[1] [2] However, the Constitution of Nigeria as amended in 1999 permits freedom of assembly, associations and civil societies irrespective of the geopolitical zones, ethnic groups and languages. [3] Civil societies plays a key role in the nation's development and growth. [4] Below is a list of notable civil societies in Nigeria: Oodua Peoples ...
Matrilocal residence is found most often in horticultural societies. [1] Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja in the Comoros, the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western ...
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
The Longuda or Lunguda are a West African ethnic group living in Adamawa and Gombe States in northeastern Nigeria. They are the only known matriarchal tribe in Nigeria. The Lunguda consider matrilineal descent in many aspects of their social organisation more important than the patrilineal descent. Clan membership may even be counted on the ...
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Anthropologist Donald Brown's list of human cultural universals (viz., features shared by nearly all current human societies) includes men being the "dominant element" in public political affairs, [62] which he asserts is the contemporary opinion of mainstream anthropology, [63] although there are some disagreements and exceptions.
Great idea for a list though. Alastair Haines 15:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC) To say as the text does that all these societies, as well as all known societies, are patriarchal is somewhat problematic. You just have to reconsider the complex form of decision-making in Irooquis society to see how simplified such a statement is.