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You can call them "Segmentary Societies" like Emile Durkheim, "Regulated Anarchies" like Max Weber, "Peaceful Societies" like on the Website mentioned below or "Matriarchy", like German Scholars define it (not to confuse with Bachofen, goddess movement or FemDom). It all is the same kind of society with the same patterns.
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Early settlers in America were puzzled by the Indians' insistence that all gifts be kept in circulation rather than become any one person's property. |
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Examples of matrilineal inheritance and what this means. |
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Part of an interview with Ethnologist Yan Ruxian by Chen Xinxin about the Mosuo, one of the world's few remaining "innocent" communities.
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The Mosuo are a non-Chinese ethnic minority living within the boundaries of China. They are considered by Chinese anthropologists to be matriarchal, because they are still living in accordance with the patterns of matrilinearity and matrilocality.
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[Summarized*]
 Rumah Adat Minangkabau Gathering House In the following I argue for a reconfiguration of the term matriarchy not as a construct based on the gendered division of political power, but one based on gendered divisions in the sociocultural and cosmological orders.
Aware of the disdain that the term matriarchy evokes in the minds of many anthropologists, I suggest that matriarchy has never been theorized in and of itself. |
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 Society in Balance The term Matriarchy is a reproduction from that 19. Century and
corresponds etymologically to designations such as monarchy, hierarchy,
patriarchy, etc. (From Greek mêtêr "mother" and archê "beginning, origin", later also "rule"). |
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