A similar kind of onomastic matrilineage is established through a practice Junod, around the turn of the century, described as the most frequent method of infant-naming among the Tsonga, and through which many of the eldest interviewees had received their birth name: consulting the divining bones to obtain the name of an ancestor so as to kupfuxa (wake up) that ancestor's spirit in the person of the child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

No wonder matrilineage is so powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [BROAD CAST, 28 August 2007] Reference

Among these, a woman remained linked to her matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Though she may have left home, her membership in her matrilineage was sealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

They practiced uxorilocal marriage, and they managed inheritance along the line of a woman's matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

It also expressed the significance of the matrilineage and its spiritual and physical link to a common first female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

They took to organizing their societies in ways that may have increased the attention given to one's father's matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

As in the initiation processes, the women of a young woman's matrilineage were among the most involved in these matters as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

This was the period during which the woman bore one or more children and the man labored for her mother's matrilineage at her home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Until they had three or four children they lived uxorilocally (with her family), so that her husband could work for her matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Once marriage had been approved and ceremonial agreements had been undertaken, a man moved into a woman's community to work for her matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

We will see that its religious aspects placed primary emphasis on securing fertility through demonstration to lineal ancestors that the young woman was worthy and ready to add to her matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

It may be that because of a girl's anticipated contribution to her matrilineage and its associated social and religious windfalls, communities were especially concerned that she be properly prepared for motherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

It could have been the time when potential marriage partners were alerted to a possible wife, which would have given her suitors time to gather the necessary and valuable items her matrilineage demanded for permission to marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

While the outward sociopolitical prominence of the matrilineage were weakened in the colonial period of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sociocultural and religious aspects supporting and empowering the matrilineage did not cease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

This participation by both lineal lines is not inconsistent with the Ruvu recognition of bilateral descent; however, the evidence also suggests that the girl's matrilineage was most prominent in the roles associated with the spiritual aspects of her fertility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

After he proved himself a good worker and he demonstrated his ability to add to her matrilineage, which was indicated by his wife's becoming pregnant and bearing children, he could usually thereafter request permission to take his wife to a separate area where she could establish a homestead of her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Even in the face of increasing focus on patrilineages in coastal communities, and contemporaneous exchanges with patrilineal Njombe -, Eastern-Sahelian -, and Cushitic-speaking populations on their northern and western borders, Ruvu societies did not relent from keeping the prominence of the matrilineage entrenched in their cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

When a man in early Ruvu societies was ready to form a partnership with a woman and, effectively, with her matrilineage, he invoked the help of his family and maybe of some outsiders. 112 His primary challenge likely involved persuading a woman's matrilineage, and probably most centrally her maternal grandmother, that he was worthy of their daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The figurines were kept by her father's matrilineage, and when not used they were carefully stored. 70 Their association with the father's matrilineal line was explained as a spiritual necessity in assuring her fertility because Zalamo believed that important spiritual properties come from his line while the "organic continuity of the clan" descended from the mother's. 71.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The attention given to the new mother by her matrilineage foregrounds the importance of children to the maintenance of clan and lineage in matrilineal societies. 22 Fittingly, the women involved in this were those clanswomen who had given birth to the young women themselves and guided them through later female initiation instruction, which itself aimed above all at securing fertility, a topic we will return to later in the chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

There are two possibilities to explain the nine individuals that have an aurochs matrilineage and a taurine patrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Gentlemen, if you will, I should like to hear no interruptions, no references to one another matrilineage and no calling of the other a Turk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pocket-lint] Reference

42Returning to the significance of the matrilineage and the matriclan in Ruvu history we gain insight into the way those institutions were understood by examining more recent oral and ethnographic sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Those people, who likely comprised members of her matrilineage of her grandmother's generation, then took the news to others. 41 After coming together they may have moved through their home areas ululating or singing in a manner that the community understood to mean a young woman had, according to the Zaramo, "broken the limb"/"broken the winnowing basket," or "cut the leaf," as it was called among Gogo speakers. 42 Their broadcasts spread the news to her lineage, clan, and beyond. 43 The cause for elation was that she exhibited the most important biological indication of potential fertility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The artist’s search for a spiritual matrilineage was complemented by a parallel quest for human role models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in the United States.] Reference

Dominant females don’t have much reason to dominate too cruelly, though; they mostly seem interested in using their power to set up matrilineage and to keep males from harassing females.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriarchy Again] Reference

She expanded her matrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference