patrilineages

Even in the face of increasing focus on patrilineages in coastal communities, and contemporaneous exchanges with patrilineal Njombe -, Eastern-Sahelian -, and Cushitic-speaking populations on their northern and western borders, Ruvu societies did not relent from keeping the prominence of the matrilineage entrenched in their cultures.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

No artefactual maps are available for outsiders to read or trace this relationship, not only because foreign map-makers have imposed their own (mis) readings of African spatial identities on this area but because map-makers of all kindsEuropean and African, colonial and postcolonialhave tended to define women's "place" here primarily in relation to men, as the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives of "traditional" patrilineages.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Politically ambitious men in matrilineal societies, such as the Yao of East Africa, used female slaves as a means of attracting male followers and as a means of developing junior patrilineages in order to gain control over their own offspring.

G. Africa, 1795-1917 2001

The Cubeo of the Kuduyarí and Kubiyú have three exogamous patrilineages, all speaking the same tongue.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The Cubeo of the Kuduyarí and Kubiyú have three exogamous patrilineages, all speaking the same tongue.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Chimpanzee troops, on the other hand, are patrilineages, groups of related males, with females having come from elsewhere.

Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog 2009

I do not know the recent demographic history of the Yoruba, though its seems plausible in a society where patrilineages are important that kinship ties would bias marriage patterns toward some non-trivial consanguinity.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008