The fragility of marriage in matrilineal societies

Matrilineal descent and the societies that have it have long been seen as being more in need of explanation than patrilineal descent, which tends to be treated as humanity's default when discussing descent. There is a long history of theories of matrilineal exceptionalism in anthropology, datin...

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Main Author: Parkin, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Anthropological Society of Oxford 2020