matrilineal belt is an area in Africa south of the equator centered in south-central Africa where matrilineality is predominant. The matrilineal belt...

Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their...

India's tribal belt refers to contiguous areas of settlement of tribal people of India, that is, groups or tribes that remained genetically homogenous...

indiscriminately to language, culture, society, and race"." Bantu peoples Matrilineal belt Pre-modern human migration Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard (2003)...

the tribe's matrilineal tradition. In another version, Mokoto had a vision that he had to marry his daughter in order to create a matrilineal dynasty. She...

socio-political interpretation of the story, as a mythologized overthrow of a matrilineal cult. In his view Pygmalion, the consort of the goddess's priestess at...

the matrilineal vassal Samantan chiefs and, finally, the lowest jenmis in terms of ritual ranking were Nairs who had inherited from matrilineal ancestors...

Nessa of Ulster. Matrilineality (the transmission of property through the female line) is not attested for the Celts either. In a matrilineal society, children...

agricultural societies ruled by caciques with fixed settlements and a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance. Taíno religion centered on the worship...

Khasis have been granted the status of Scheduled tribe. The Khasis are a matrilineal society. Jaintia, an ethnic group living in Sylhet region and also known...