matrilineal inheritance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

93The institution of marriage represents another persistent feature in matrilineal Ruvu communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of spring] Reference

(See also matrilineal, patriarchy, and patrilineal.) 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [matriarchy] Reference

‘Tharwad’ is thus a matrilineal, matrilocal family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The sociological concept of joint family in India] Reference

Term limits do not override patrilineal or matrilineal descent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry J. Stern: Tuesday's Two-Sided Ballot] Reference

The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of ‘matrilineal’ is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

The entire issue of matrilineal descent is in fact rather interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

In a matrilineal system, descent comes down through the mother's line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexuality] Reference

My father came from a patrilineal background, my mother from a matrilineal one.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Moreover, even if one grants the existence of matrilineal elements, by Shang times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

I'm assuming Mom-mom is his grandmother, her mother, and therefore, the lineage is matrilineal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Roundup] Reference

From this time, large matrilineal clans grew up around the newly emerging rural nobles in Kongo.    From Wordnik.com.  [1650-1800] Reference

Examples of matrilineal inheritance in unusual circumstances are well known from other societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

Surely, there are some people who are Navajo whose matrilineal line is eventually from somewhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Census Starts Debate on the New Racial Categories for 2010] Reference

Sanday gives as an example the Minangkabau of Sumatra, who are matrilineal, matrilocal and egalitarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [On victim-blaming and control] Reference

Each developed its own political structure but shared certain common traits, including matrilineal descent.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Forest West Africa] Reference

The answer is simple - Japanese macaques are a female-bonded species in primatology terms they are matrilineal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monkey Stories - Part 1] Reference

But mitochondrial, in this case matrilineal, will be tight enough to establish a strong relationship between.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

Bede states clearly that the Picts employed a form of matrilineal succession in certain undefined circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

But mitochondrial, in this case, matrilineal, will be tight enough to establish a strong relationship between.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

She insisted that the Cherokee had historically been matrilineal and that her leadership was a return to tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller Dies] Reference

It is possible that the Pictish king-list reflects a situation like this, rather than one of matrilineal succession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

Nevertheless, his statement implies that matrilineal inheritance applied in some circumstances but not necessarily in all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

In its ongoing struggle for respectability, mame loshn has had to distinguish itself from the feminized and the matrilineal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yiddish Literature in the United States.] Reference

The mutation in my family is a matrilineal defect, which -- while tragic -- also means that disease has been highly visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy Boesky: Seize the Day: Support Breast and Ovarian Cancer Survivors and 'Previvors'] Reference

The king-list shows clearly that the Picts recognised descent from the father, and thus were not purely matrilineal by this definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

On the other hand, although the succession pattern in the Pictish king-list is consistent with matrilineal succession, it is not proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?] Reference

Presumably both peoples were born under the well-known Pueblo matrilineal system wherein the mother ruled the family and owned the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

He also explains why agriculture was invented, expounds the causes of matrilineal descent, and uncovers the reasons for Aztec sacrifices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture as Protein and Profit] Reference

Descendants of a matrilineal democracy, the Iroquois Confederacy introduced the democratic concept to the United States 'founding fathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanjay Khanna: New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"] Reference