Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
Al Billings (mimir@speakeasy.org)
25 Jul 1996 22:05:16 GMT
cougar@cathouse.com wrote:
: mimir@speakeasy.org (Al Billings) wrote:
: >: ---------------------------------------------------------------
: >: Minangkabau matriarchy
: >:
: >: The society of the Minangkabau is ruled by the system of matriarchy,
: >: that means that they trace descent and inheritance through
: >: the female line.
: >
: > This isn't matriarchy. This is matrilineal descent. Two different things.
:
: Perhaps you should look these terms up in a dictionary before you
: claim such things.
I think my Anthro degree will suffice. Thanks though.
Popular dictionaries aren't always correct on technical terminology.
: This leads me to believe that you do not know what you are talking
: about.
Funny, I was going to say the same. Look in the anthropological
literature.
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