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- noun anthropology A clan, with membership determined by
matrilineal descent from a common ancestor.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Originally, it appears, * - kolo named the matriclan along the mother's line, but only in the Ruvu subgroup of languages did it retain this narrow meaning over the long run of history.
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In the sense of a grouping of matriclans, this root occurs outside of West Ruvu and Kagulu in Ngulu kungugo "matriclan" and Lugulu * ikungugo.
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He was told that a matriclan was like a gourd vine that crept along continuously while ultimately tied to an essential root.
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Ehret has proposed that in the middle of the last millennium BCE, northern and central clusters of Kaskazi speakers innovated the word * - kolo to name their mother's matriclan.
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In his view, its use may be tied to a historical period when they borrowed a widespread Central-Sudanian metaphor in which a tree's trunk or base stump was symbolically associated with one's matriclan. 52 Kati and Northeast-Coastal Bantu-speaking peoples retained this word.
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Like many of their Bantu ancestors, they appear to have given emphasis to the predominance of one's mother's matriclan.
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Kwere speakers also note tombo to name the matrilineage of the * - kolo matriclan.
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In this selection a contrast is made between marriages legitimized by ancestors whose offspring belonged to the matriclan and more recent methods that include exchange of property, which in the speaker's view appears to have weakened earlier traditions.
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What this intimates is that they were distinguishing themselves by their particular * ikungugo, which both records clearly suggest were inherited affiliations linked to one's matriclan.
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Note 52: Ehret's view is that this kinship metaphor supplanted an older one that in deep-seated Bantu history connected matriclan unity with the symbolism of the house.
hernesheir commented on the word matriclan
Hello to You! Dearest Mummy, and peace to your/our family.
March 22, 2011