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tracing descent through the female line.
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tracing descent through the mother's family line.
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a method of tracing and organizion families through the mother's line
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Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line.
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a system of descent or inheritance from mother to child, rather than from father to child.
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Passed down exclusively from the mother.
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tracing descent through the mothers line.
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related by tracing common descent exclusively through females from a founding female ancestor.
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family lineage (and sometimes inheritance) followed unilaterally through the mother and the female line of the family.
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Descent is traced and property inherited through the female line.
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Matrilineal societies are those in which family descent is traced through the mother's line.
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Family descent and inheritance traced through the female line. (p. 15)
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