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  2. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    Matrilocal Matrilineal: Gitxsan: North America: Canada: Matrilineal Greek: Europe: various islands Matrilocal John Hawkins: to the end of the 18th century AD [7] Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) North America: United States, Canada: Matrilocal Matrilineal Lewis Henry Morgan: 1901 Hopi: North America: United States: Matrilocal Matrilineal Barbara Freire ...

  3. Matrilocal residence - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category:Matriarchy - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 December 2024, at 17:25 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. List of civil societies in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  7. Patrilocal residence - Wikipedia

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    Matrilocal residence may be regarded as the opposite of patrilocal residence. World map showing prevalence of patrilocal marriage by country Early theories explaining the determinants of postmarital residence (e.g., Lewis Henry Morgan , Edward Tylor , or George Peter Murdock ) connected it with the sexual division of labor.

  8. Talk:List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    Laesø is no longer matrilineal or matrilocal, be it common knowledge in Denmark or not. This list is for modern-day societies with such rules. Hit us with an academic reference for matrilocal or matrilineal on modern-day Lesbos or it will have to go. Trigaranus 08:12, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

  9. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...