patrilineage

As a wife she has the right to use land under the corporate ownership of her husband's patrilineage.

All men of a particular patrilineage can use land to plant crops to feed their families.

A household, or several together, could break away from the localized patrilineage of which they had been members.

A person is usually closest to and receives most assistance from his or her own father's patrilineage.

The entail established itself to be a successful means of reinforcing the patrilineage.

As the provision of a dowry became essential for marriage, patrilineage increased in importance.

Umunna are a form of patrilineage maintained by the Igbo.

Dogon villages are comprised of extended families linked by patrilineage.

These are generally synonymous with matrilineage and patrilineage, respectively.

Four or five generations of descendants of one man, related through male forebears, constituted a patrilineage.

It is of course the opposite in jural and ritual affairs, where the patrilineage is all-important.

Daughters rarely inherit through the patrilineage.

Although patrilineage is considered an important method of organization, the Afikpo considers matrilineal ties to be more important.

Villages are often made up of a single patrilineage, being individuals with the same surname, often with a common male ancestor.

The Parombo family (patrilineage) in the Ukuru clan for example include two thousand men in 1949.

Social Organisation of Peasantry Patrilineage- group of descent deriving from males.

We turned to Jenny Lee, author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," to help us figure out their patrilineage.

Such is the store the Islamic Republic puts in patrilineage (the children of Iranian women and their non-Iranian partners are not entitled to citizenship).

If, however, a father fails to perform the ceremonies affiliating his child with his kin group, the mother's brother may claim the child for his patrilineage.

Often ties with the mother's patrilineage are nearly as important; Temne speak of their mother's paternal kin as their "second line of help and protection."

Men are forbidden to marry within their own patrilineage or those of their mother or father's mother and must marry outside their own village.

In cultural anthropology, a patrilineage is a consanguineal male and female kinship group, each of whose members is descended from the common ancestor through male forebears.

The favored primogeniture and lineage based on agnatic lines (or patrilineage) restricted a woman's right to inherit, and in specific parts of Europe, of dower.

Caaka Mbaar was the second king of Waalo from the Mbooj patrilineage, who ruled in the second half of the 14th century, around 1367.

The Reform and Reconstructionist branches of Rabbinic Judaism and the Karaites, on the other hand, all recognise patrilineage.