ISBN : 9782296541856
CULTURAL ISSUES RELATED TO THE MATRILINEAL SYSTEM OF THE AGHEM
The Concept of Matrilineation Matrilineal or matriliny sometimes designates “children belonging to the mother's group.” Murdock (1959) identifies the following features of a matrilineal inheritance system in relation to the Thonga matriliny community: avunculocal residence is customary in childhood. Boys and girls, as soon as they are weaned, go to live in the village of their maternal uncle and remain there for several years, in the case of girls sometimes until they are fully grown.(This is normal in matrilineal societies with avunculocal residence, e.g. the Central...