How To Use matriarchal In A Sentence
- Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular.
- So while it seems plausible that the Picts practised a form of matriliny, I certainly agree that this doesn't mean they were matriarchal! The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?
- The island's men perform ritual dances to attract wives in this matriarchal society.
- 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
- Others have indulged their longing for herstories of powerful women, and in the process constructed theories about the benevolent, matriarchal exercise of power.
- The finds from these burial grounds point to the existence of a prosperous matriarchal society.
- I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
- Chinese sub civilization originates from line in the eight diagrams, matriarchal society and mythology.
- They are matriarchal, you know, with their mother-clans indicated by the tattoos they wear. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Her autobiography opens with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf that firmly sets this metanarrative within a matriarchal tradition of storytelling.
