How To Use Matriarchal In A Sentence
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Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular.
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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?
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The island's men perform ritual dances to attract wives in this matriarchal society.
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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
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Others have indulged their longing for herstories of powerful women, and in the process constructed theories about the benevolent, matriarchal exercise of power.
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The finds from these burial grounds point to the existence of a prosperous matriarchal society.
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I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
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Chinese sub civilization originates from line in the eight diagrams, matriarchal society and mythology.
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They are matriarchal, you know, with their mother-clans indicated by the tattoos they wear.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Her autobiography opens with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf that firmly sets this metanarrative within a matriarchal tradition of storytelling.
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Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e.
Matriarchy and women rulers
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The narwhal symbol of her matriarchal line was picked out in ivory beads on her leather vest.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Demons, hearing this word, thought it meant dayadhvam, meaning "sympathize" or "be compassionate"; in the Oriental context demons were not evil spirits but deities of the old matriarchal religion, who preached karuna, mother-love.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Chinese sub civilization originates from line in the eight diagrams, matriarchal society and mythology.
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Humans are naturally matriarchal and it has always seemed to me absurd that anyone should ever think otherwise.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Though by now anthropologists reject claims that early societies were matriarchal, some feminist theorists still cling to the idea that primitive matriarchies once dotted the globe.
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Thus proving that the gene for 'having a book ghostwritten for you' is directly transmutable down the matriarchal line.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before her incarceration, she imagines herself as the ruler of a matriarchal, benevolent, peaceful realm in which she is unmarried and autonomous, peasants are nurtured, and men forswear “military rivalship” (2.1.52).
The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillies Orra and The Dream
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Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists.
The One and Only
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In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat.
GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
