patrilineal

How To Use patrilineal In A Sentence

• In this patrilineal society, property is a male birthright.
• The northern type of family is thus patrilineal and patrilocal and the married women in such a family live in the house of their father-in-law (sasural). The sociological concept of joint family in India
• Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father.
• The vast majority of Gambia's ethnic groups are patrilineal and patrilocal.
• A telling sign of heightened stress within the patrilineal family is the rise of litigation over property devolution.
• However, some questions were still unanswered, since the avunculate is not associated always with either matrilineal or patrilineal systems.
• Most kin groups tend to be patrilineal and patrilocal, although there are also large categories of matrilineal kin who share rights to land and to local religious and political offices.
• In the seventeenth century, the enforced celibacy of daughters and cadets already caused by the dowry inflation was further exacerbated by primogeniture and the triumph of the patrilineal family.
• It can test for shared strands of autosomal DNA – meaning any line of ancestry, not just pure matrilineal or patrilineal lines. Lecture in Dublin on Tracing Your Irish Ancestors via DNA « Cork Genealogist
• In a patrilineal society, having many male offspring was a big concern and a much-invoked wish.