A patrilineal society. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His body symbolizes the future good morality, honor, and reputation of his patrilineage and the performance of certain patrilineal rituals. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Allen angry about “Lost Soldiers.”] Reference
Most tribes are patrilineal, meaning that children are considered the father's descendants and men are viewed as the owners of all of the property. From Wordnik.com. [African Family Structures] Reference
"patrilineal" kids may face less questioning anyway. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Servitude to patrilineal monarchs was a tradition. From Wordnik.com. [changing the channel - Anil Dash] Reference
Among nobles, growth in patrilineal descent patterns. From Wordnik.com. [e. West Central Africa] Reference
(See also matrilineal, patriarchy, and patrilineal.) 1. From Wordnik.com. [matriarchy] Reference
Term limits do not override patrilineal or matrilineal descent. From Wordnik.com. [Henry J. Stern: Tuesday's Two-Sided Ballot] Reference
In patrilineal societies, the identity of the biological father is important. From Wordnik.com. ["One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."] Reference
My father came from a patrilineal background, my mother from a matrilineal one. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The basic social unit was the extended family of three or four patrilineal generations. From Wordnik.com. [F. The Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanians, 223-651 C.E] Reference
But it appears that their patrilineal affiliations did not ultimately comprise patriclans. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Even the Reform movement's decision to accept patrilineal descent was based on a responsum. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Golin: God's Covenant, Judaism and Interfaith Marriage] Reference
Although Danish by patrilineal descent, Mr. Christiansen was born and brought up in England. From Wordnik.com. [Loathed, Lovable and Loopy] Reference
Owning a piece of patrilineal land on the bay brought with it the right to harvest its bounty. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
The survival of the name and the continuance of the patrilineal line are important to many Goreans. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
"Our society is patrilineal, so the genocide was aimed at men," said Bernadette Kanzariye, a Rwandan legislator. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
My paper is about how menstruation taboos effect the status of women in matrilineal versus patrilineal societies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Rigby notes, that in his view it is odd that in a patrilineal society people should be so concerned with male virility. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
He's credited with 16 million male descendants — and those are just the ones descended through direct patrilineal lines. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Most medieval and early medieval societies reckoned royal descent and inheritance through the male line patrilineal descent. From Wordnik.com. [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference
It can test for shared strands of autosomal DNA – meaning any line of ancestry, not just pure matrilineal or patrilineal lines. From Wordnik.com. [Lecture in Dublin on Tracing Your Irish Ancestors via DNA « Cork Genealogist] Reference
The mechanism for this transition was made up of many factors: patrilineal descent, parliamentary statute, and the elite household. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
Born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, she later broke with patrilineal tradition by adopting the surname Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Judy Chicago.] Reference
The most disadvantageous outcome of liaisons between them would have been the loss of their daughters to patrilineal Gogo communities. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Hamman, an avid genealogist, could trace his patrilineal line back to 19th-century rural Indiana, but there was a glitch in the family records. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Blood] Reference
An adulterous woman could never be permitted in a patrilineal society based on the principle of male descent and inheritance through legitimate sons. From Wordnik.com. [Gomer: Bible.] Reference
The northern type of family is thus patrilineal and patrilocal and the married women in such a family live in the house of their father-in-law (sasural). From Wordnik.com. [The sociological concept of joint family in India] Reference
The van der Merwe story challenges the presumptions of patrilineal genealogies, revealing the depth of multigenerational relationships traced through women. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
Parakuyu Maasai populations who moved into the area during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a likely additional source of patrilineal influence. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Chinese society was unquestionably patrilineal and patriarchal. 9 Even so, royal wives and other women could exercise considerable authority and have high status. From Wordnik.com. [Empresses and Consorts] Reference
Guest editor Bono as a toddler, circa 1961, with maps showing the migrations of his matrilineal (top) and patrilineal ancestors (middle), based on analysis of his DNA. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Africa] Reference
Gogo de-emphasis of matrilineal descent may have been the direct outcome of heavy incorporation of patrilineal Njombe, South-Rift-Southern-Cushitic-speaking populations. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Social science has English terms to categorize systems of families and relationships -- includingmonogamy, polygamy, polygyny, hypergamy, matrilineal, patrilineal, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: Take My Words For It: Homogamy and Heterogamy] Reference
Shang state and society witnessed the origins of the patrilineal family and ancestor worship, as well as increasing differentiation in social and status roles from earlier times. From Wordnik.com. [4. China, to 221 B.C.E] Reference
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