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Definition of Matrilineal kin
1. Noun. One related on the mother's side.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matrilineal Kin
Literary usage of Matrilineal kin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"... be applied to the assemblage of matrilineal kin. In this connection Tylor has
already urged the importance of matrilocal residence. ..."
2. Women and Kinship; Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South by Leela Dube (1997)
"A conjugal unit generally lived in a conjugal household but was surrounded by
the man's matrilineal kin and their conjugal families. ..."
3. Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie (1917)
"It developed, as a matter of fact, that practically all the tribes with
exogamous 'clans', ie, matrilineal kin groups, or exogamous 'gentes', ie, ..."
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