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	Indian4
		This was based on the fact that the duties of farming and raising the primary sustenance of the family was accomplished by the females.
		Although the tribal leader was invariably a male, in a matrilineal system the succession of the tribal chief, or sachem, did not pass to his son.
		"…the succession is continued through the women, so that at the death of a chief, it is not his own, but his sister's son who succeeds him, or in default of which, his nearest relation in the female line.
	www.motherbedford.com /Indian4.htm (1411 words)

	Matrilineality - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female.
		In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother.
		The view of matrilineal descent as originating at the time of Yavneh is openly held by scholars affiliated with the Conservative movement.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Matrilineal (913 words)

	Chile encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Chile politics and officials, Chile History. Travel to Chile
		A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female.
		In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother.
		In the ancient kingdom of Elam, the succession to the throne was matrilineal, and a nephew would succeed his maternal uncle to the throne.
	www.chileiworld.com /wiki-Matrilineal (1146 words)

	Matrilineal succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, this again is obviously not a female succeeding a female, but a form of succession by appointment: the monarch chose his successor, and formalized that appointment by marrying the chosen man with a Royal daughter, which also worked as a way to legitimize the succession.
		In societies using matrilineal descent, the social relationship between children and their biological father tends to be different due to the fact that he is not a member of their matrilineal family.
		The analogy of matrilineal succession of females, in the extreme male side is agnatic succession, and correspondingly the analogy of matrilineal primogeniture of females is agnatic primogeniture.
	matrilineal-succession.mindbit.com (1013 words)

	Matrilineal Encyclopedia Article @ Inherited.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Matrilineality may also involve the inheritance of property or titles through the female line.
		Other examples of matrilineal cultures are the Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, the Nairs, Bunts and Kurichiyas of Kerala, India, the Khasi and Garo of Meghalaya, India, the Naxi of China, and the Gitksan of British Columbia.
		In the ancient kingdom of Elam, the succession to the throne was matrilineal, and a nephew would succeed his maternal uncle to the throne.
	www.inherited.org /encyclopedia/Matrilineal (1199 words)

	Inheritance - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Other practices include primogeniture, under which all property goes to the eldest child, or often the eldest son, or ultimogeniture, in which everything is left to the youngest child.
		A fideicommissum's succession can also be ordered in a way that determines it long (or eternally) also with regard to persons born long after the original descendant.
		Royal succession has typically been more or less a fideicommissum, the realm not (easily) to be sold and the rules of succession not to be (easily) altered by a holder (a monarch).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Heir (748 words)

	RBPATRI
		Thus there is a process of 'patrilineal succession' whereby the sons of male members of the horde become in their turn members, thus acquiring rights and having a share in the estate.
		In matrilineal succession the greater part of the body of rights of an individual, over things, over persons, or as a member of a corporation, are derived by him through his mother and cannot be transmitted to his children but devolve upon his sister's children.
		With regard to the institutions of patrilineal and matrilineal succession the question is frequently asked as to what is their origin.
	instruct.uwo.ca /anthro/301/rbpatri.htm (6472 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Primogeniture
		As a mechanism of succession in hereditary monarchies, some sort of primogeniture has for long been the most used, but it is not the only tradition; nor is it likely the oldest method.
		The succession of Duchy of Burgundy in 1361 was resolved in favor of John, son of a younger daughter, on basis of proximity, because he was a closer cousin of the dead duke than Charles, the grandson of the elder daughter.
		In dispute over the succession of the Kingdom of Scotland 1290-91, the Bruce family pleaded tanistry and proximity of blood, whereas Balliol primogeniture.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Primogeniture (1882 words)

	Matrilineal Succession
		Matrilineal culture has long believed that the mother and child relationship is the center of communal life.
		Matrilineal patterns of social organization are strong in ancient and even modern African communities.
		Matrilineal communities are known to participate in and or manifest
	kissyku.tripod.com /blackgoddessforum/id12.html (671 words)

	Inheritance - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Even more radical than the patrilineal succession is the practice of primogeniture whereby all property goes to the eldest child, or often the eldest son (the first-born).
		A fideicommission's succession can also be ordered in a way that determines it long (or eternally) also with regard to persons born long after the original decedent.
		Royal succession has typically been more or less a fideicommission, the realm not (easily) to be sold and the rules of succession not to be (easily) altered by a holder (a monarch).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Heir (651 words)

	Scotland History: Scottish Kings, Queens, Chieftains and Royalty
		The so-called House of Dunkeld is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the clear succession of Scottish kings from 1034 to 1040 and from 1058 to 1290.
		The so-called House of Moray is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the succession of rulers whose base was at the region of Moray and who ruled sometimes a larger kingdom.
		The Loairn succession followed quite loyally the rules of tanistry, resulting in practice to outcomes where branches of the leaders' extended family rotated on the rulership, posibly keeping a balance between important branches (this is quite typical for tribal societies, where primogeniture is much less usual than agnatic seniority or turns on the throne).
	www.scotlandhistory.net /kings.html (1619 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for inheritance
		In matrilineal systems, inheritance is traced from the maternal uncle (mother's brother) to the nephew (mother's son).
		Descent, inheritance, and succession are matrilineal and polygyny is general.
		accession to the throne/title synonyms : succession to, inheritance of, attainment of.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=inheritance&StartAt=81 (816 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a mechanism of succession in hereditary monarchies, some sort of primogeniture has for long been the most used, but it is not the only nor even the probably oldest method.
		We may expect that some cult of high priestesses will be someday revealed to have applied fully matrilineal succession, even up to total exclusion of males even as transfers of succession rights.
		For example, the succession of Duchy of Burgundy in 1361 was resolved in favor of John, son of a younger daughter, on basis of proximity, because he was a closer cousin of the dead duke than Charles, the grandson of the elder daughter.
	www.stylokna.pl /wikipedia/index.php?title=primogeniture (1641 words)

	Matrilineal succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matrilineal succession is a form of hereditary succession or other inheritance through the subject's female relatives in fully female line, to the total exclusion of males.
		matrilineal primogeniture where the eldest female child of the subject is entitled to the hereditary succession before her younger sisters, and her brothers are not entitled at all.
		matrilineal seniority, where the eldest sister is succeeded by her next eldest sister, etc, until the surviving sisters have had their turns, at which point the females of the next generation, daughters of these "original" sisters will have their turns, in order of seniority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matrilineal_succession (1087 words)

	Graphic Ghana - Print this page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Intestate Succession Law of 1985 (P.N.D.C. The Intestate Succession Law of 1985 (P.N.D.C. Law III) was passed to correct some of the mistakes in the traditional system of inheritance, particularly the matrilineal (succession through the female).
		Under the matrilineal system of inheritance, a man’s property, upon his death, is inherited by a member of his matrilineal family where the man dies without leaving a will.
		Under both the matrilineal and patrilineal system of inheritance, parents have no share in the property of their deceased child where this child dies without leaving a will.
	www.graphicghana.com /printpage.asp?artid=6536 (279 words)

	52-Jap-hereditary-rules
		It has solved for now a succession crisis that had taken its most direct human toll on Crown Princess Masako, 42, the Harvard-educated former diplomat whose failure to bear a son contributed to her depression and withdrawal from the public.
		Last year, with seemingly no resolution to the succession crisis, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi convened a panel of experts that recommended that a woman and her offspring be allowed to ascend the throne.
		Among possible solutions to the succession crisis, conservatives proposed that other branches of the imperial family, abolished during the post-World War II American occupation, be resurrected to find a relative of the emperor with the right Y chromosome.
	astro.temple.edu /~bstavis/courses/52-Jap-hereditary-rules.htm (1033 words)

	Inheritance Encyclopedia Article @ Gasped.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Other practices include primogeniture, under which all property goes to the eldest child, or often the eldest son, or ultimogeniture, in which everything is left to the youngest child.
		Many states have inheritance taxes, under which a portion of any estate goes to the government, though the government technically is not an heir.
		Royal succession has typically been more or less a fideicommissum, the realm not (easily) to be sold and the rules of succession not to be (easily) altered by a holder (a monarch).
	www.gasped.net /encyclopedia/Inheritance (839 words)

	Matrilineality at AllExperts
		In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother.
		Other examples of matrilineal cultures are the Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, the Nairs and Kurichiyas of Kerala, India, the Khasi and Garo of Meghalaya, India, the Naxi of China, and the Gitksan of British Columbia.
		The view of matrilineal descent as originating at the time of Yavneh is openly held by scholars affiliated withthe Conservative movement.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/matrilineality.htm (1010 words)

	Page_7f_Celtic_Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, many vestiges of matrilineal predominance remained in Christian Celtic society where the status of women was much higher than in other contemporary cultures, in some instances even extending to matrilineal succession to kingships.
		There is evidence that in earliest times, succession may have ordinarily passed through the female line and the sovereignty resided in the person of the queen who, as high priestess, was also believed to be the reincarnation of the Great Earth Mother.
		She would have served all sovereign functions except that of war leader and she is said to have chosen from among her warriors a man to mate with, lead her warband and, after the cycle of seven years, become the king-sacrifice and die to ensure fertility for the soil and prosperity of the tribe.
	macdonnellofleinster.com /page_7f_celtic_society.htm (4211 words)

	Re: On interracial relationships, or anything
		I mentioned (1) matrilineal : >rules of inheritance in Africa, in contrast to Europe and : >Arabia, where patrilineal succession and inheritance : >obtained; : Is matrilineal inheritance morally superior to patrilineal : inheritance?
		The point you raise, in the predictable fashion of Euro-thought, namely of moral superiority of matrilineal vs patrilineal rules of inheritance is another question.
		Matrilineal succession is important because the Africans looked for balance in their social arrangements, the way the Americans talk incessantly about their vaunted constitutional checks and balances.
	www.theafrican.com /Magazine/Asili/54.htm (1747 words)

	Ghana - Major Ethnic Groups
		Through the exogamous matriclan system, local identity and individual status, inheritance, succession to wealth and to political offices, and even basic relations within the village community are determined.
		Male succession to inherited positions is, however, determined by relationship to mothers and sisters.
		Matrilineal succession to property has been the cause of much litigation.
	countrystudies.us /ghana/39.htm (873 words)

	Scotland History Tanistry and the Scots right of succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Even then, it was only used in terms of royal succession, whilst other lordships continued to be inherited by the former system.
		The Tanist, under the system of Tanistry, was the heir presumptive and his right to the throne was not conferred by the father but by the mother.
		Matrilineal succession was typical of Pictish society and this by no means an uncommon practice, whether royal of commoner succession.
	www.scotlandforvisitors.co.uk /history/tanistry.php (227 words)

	JAPAN ECHO - POLITICAL CURRENTS Vol. 33, No. 3 - CARRYING ON THE CHRYSANTHEMUM THRONE
		The creation of the council was a response to growing fears that it could prove impossible in the future to find an eligible successor to the Chrysanthemum Throne under the current rules of succession, which stipulate that the throne shall be inherited by a male in the male line of imperial descent.
		The truth is that under the current requirement that the emperor be a male in the male line of descent, the nation could very easily find itself with no eligible successor to the imperial throne at some later point.
		Nitta Hitoshi likewise argues against matrilineal succession in a critique of an article by historian Tanaka Takashi, who defends the report’s recommendations.
	www.japanecho.com /sum/2006/330309.html (887 words)

	Akan Ethnic Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Through the exogamous matriclan system, local identity and individual status, inheritance, succession to wealth and to political offices, and even basic relations within the village community are determined.
		Male succession to inherited positions is, however, determined by relationship to mothers and sisters.
		Matrilineal succession to property has been the cause of much litigation.
	www.atidekate.com /Ashanti/Akan.html (4694 words)

	Learn more about Inheritance in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Even more radical than patrelinial succession is the practice of primogeniture whereby all property goes to the eldest child, or often the eldest son.
		With partible inheritance large estates are slowly divided among many decendents and great wealth is eventualyl diluted.
		Succession to titles of nobility and royalty, see Order of succession, Heir Apparent and Heir Presumptive.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /i/in/inheritance.html (298 words)

	Vietnam's Central Highlands : In Depth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Many hilltribe groups are matrilineal, where names and even fortunes are passed from generation to generation, from mother to child, and almost all practice some kind of animist religion, where gods are the hills themselves or the natural forces that made them.
		Catholic missionaries had varied success bringing the good word to these remote, autonomous groups, and the legacy of their efforts still stands in the many churches, orphanages, and missions throughout the region (be sure to check out the Mission School in Kontum).
		Jarai society follows a matrilineal succession, meaning that family names are passed on from mother to child, and there's a kind of egalitarianism to cooperative villages of hunter-gatherers, river fishermen (villages are usually near water), and subsistence farmers.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=3620&catID=3620010012 (935 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Matrilineal
		Their matrilineal, feudal society is based on nomadic pastoralism; it traditionally maintained a class of fl, non-Tuareg servants.
		Clans are of either matrilineal (matriclan) or patrilineal (patriclan) descent, recruiting the children of either male or female members accordingly.
		Although patrilineal descent is recognized, matrilineal descent is more important; social organization is built around the clan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Matrilineal&StartAt=11 (718 words)

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		This system of succession was regulated by custom, whereas, the succession passed from sister’s son to sister’s son, that is, from uncle to maternal nephew, or among uterine brothers [in order of birth], or among maternal cousins.
		The kings of Scone descended according to the matrilineal principle from Credne’s sister, while Credne’s three sons, Cait, Ce, and Circ, founded their own kingdoms in Scotland, that is, Caithness, Ce, and Circinn, and were the ancestors of three great branches of the Cruithni, that is, the descendants of Credne.
		The succession to the seven provincial kingdoms was according to the patrilineal principle, while the succession to the high-kingship at Scone [the national monarchy] was according to the matrilineal principle, which was a non-Indo-European system and evidence that the Pictish monarchy pre-dated the Indo-Europeans in Britain.
	www.angelfire.com /ego/et_deo/picts.wps.htm (4297 words)

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		Similairly, matrilineal inheritance, or 'Mother-right', was the rule in ancient Japan.
		The practice was still evident in the 3rd century AD when the death of Himeko, a priestess-queen sparked a bloody conflict that only ceased on the coronation of her eldest daughter.
		Evidence of Goddess worship and the matrilineal societies associated with her can be found all over the world, but they do not occur at the same time.
	www.usc.edu /dept/finearts/snowwhite/site_files/gotcha/Ngotcha.html (1617 words)

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