matriline

Examples

• All

• Later, cubs begin to initiate attacks on their own, and their mothers then often rush to join the cub in its attack if the target animal belongs to a lower-ranking matriline.

  Academic text (1998)

• Furthermore, in most cases, members of a woman's patriline and matriline can strengthen ritual and political ties with her husband and his relatives.

  Academic text (1992)

• In one account, a woman explained that a brother had been selected by members of a widow's patriline and matriline as a second husband.

  Academic text (1992)

• Nest usurpation causes loss of European matrilines as well as patrilines.

  Academic text (2004)

• Kangaroo spouses usually belong to the pool of customary preferred spouses, thus providing the possibility to increase ties with a larger number of matrilines from which to choose an acceptable spouse.

  Academic text (1992)

• According to this "social intelligence" hypothesis, the reason that monkeys in the laboratory can be taught to classify objects according to some criterion, such as color or shape, is that they do this sort of thing naturally in the context of social interactions: placing objects X, Y, and Z into a particular class comes easily to animals used to classifying one another as members of different matrilines.

  Academic text (1990)

• In many cultures, property is inherited through a woman's matriline, ensuring that family wealth stays within the female side of the family.

• The anthropologist studied the matriline of the tribe to understand the role of women in their society.

• Tracing one's matriline can reveal important information about family health history and genetic traits.

Synonyms

M

matrilineage

vsmatriline

• Specialized

9.9

A family line that comes from the mother's side

shares identical meaning but is the shorter, simpler word form

C

cognation

vsmatriline

• Specialized

9.9

A family line that follows the mother's side

shares identical meaning but is a different word form

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology