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Originally posted by Xombie:
<STRONG>DF is a fantasy and maybe it doesn't matter, but [MATRIACHY] never existed anywhere in history, only in fiction stories.</STRONG>
That is, unfortunately, a blatent lie.
* The Bunts community in Mangalore and Udupi (South India) historically follow a matrilineal system. This system was common to many communities in coastal Karnataka and Kerala. It was called Aliya-Sanatana and as well Aliya Kattu. The Gotras or bari were passed from mother to children. In Aliya-Santana, inheritance is passed through the matrilineal family. The brother managed the land on behalf of his sister. His sister's son in turn would inherit the management of the matrilineal family land. There are many Bunt households, each with their own name. In addition, each matrilineal household had a surname associated with it, and the children would take their matrilineal family surname. Traditionally, a Bunt would put the name of his matrilineal household in front of his name and his matrilineal surname at the end.
* The traditional Nair community in Kerala, South India fits the new definition of 'matrifocality'. (Nowadays this system is rarely practiced. The members of the Nair community now live in nuclear families). A traditional Nair matrifocal family is called a Tarawad or Marumakkathayam family. A traditional Nair Tarawad consists of a mother and her children living together with their mother's eldest surviving brother or the eldest surviving maternal uncle, who is called Karanavan. The Karnavan exercises full powers over the affairs of the family. Until recently, the main significance of this system was that the heirs to the property were the women in the family and the men were only allowed to enjoy the benefits during their lifetime, not being able to pass any property as a posession. The naming system of the Nair community had the prefix of their mother's 'family name' and they adopted the maternal uncle’s surname. The Marumakkathayam system of Kerala was a legal right which determined inheritance through the female line. Thus if a family property was to be partitioned all female members would receive one share and all male members who were their direct offspring would receive one share. Thus a brother might receive only one share while his sister and her children (and grandchildren by her daughters) would each receive a share. This traditional right was removed by the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Act, 1975.
* Mosuo people - Lugu Lake, bordering between Yunnan and Sichuan province, China
* The people of Western Sahara (the former Spanish Sahara), occupied by Morocco retain semi-matriarchal customs [1]. See also Polisario Front
* The people of the Bolama archipelago in Guinea-Bissau[2]
* Guajiro tribes - inhabiting the Guajira Department in Colombia and the adjacent region in the Caribbean coast in Venezuela, South America, whose children are raised not by their father, but by their mother's brother (avunculism)
The cultures encountered in the New World often were misunderstood and destroyed before being documented. The Dutch explorers of New Netherlands failed to negotiate for the lands they desired in what is now New Jersey because they insisted in discussions with the men, when women were the property holders who controlled where the people would reside in a seasonally changing use of several sites.
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