matrilineality

But I have yet to see anything about matrilineality or matrilineal descent before either Talmudic or rabbinic literature, and there it emerges quite clearly in "The Herodian Period"!

Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011

But I have yet to see anything about matrilineality or matrilineal descent before either Talmudic or rabbinic literature, and there it emerges quite clearly in "The Herodian Period"!

Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011

The assumption made by the colonial ethnographer about their societies having been "matriarchal" in composition is potentially misleading because matrilineality, while perhaps giving the preponderance of importance for purposes of inheritance to the female line, is not necessarily commensurate with female governance or domination.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

But neither the shift in * mitala's meaning nor the innovation of * ikungugo appears to have significantly detracted from the centrality of matrilineality in their societies.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Green Specs: So say matrilineality is not biblical but was dreamt up by some rabbis in about 500 CE and has been followed for 1500 rather than 3000 or whatever years.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Diminishing importance of matrilineality and of the village.

e. West Central Africa 2001

Additionally, several writers have pointed out that many ancient surnames contain the element for female. 5 Also frequently cited in support of the evidence of matrilineality are passages from later texts — mostly fourth and third century B.C. — that in ancient time "people knew their mothers but not their fathers."

Empresses and Consorts 1999