mother-right
idea · 1 work · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
الامومة · al-umūmah · matriarchy · al-umumah · matriliny · الانتساب الى الام · مذهب الامومة
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The claim that the archaic family had no identifiable father, was headed by a woman with many men, and reckoned descent through mothers alone.
﴾ Smith's view of the totemism of the Arabs ﴿ Smith holds that the Arabs in their most ancient times traced their descent to fathers among the animals or the plants, which they worshipped or held sacred and by whose names they called themselves, and that their case in marriage and mother-right and the rest was like the case of the savage tribes in Australia and America.
and the children for the most part inherit the totem of their mothers, so that descent is joined among them, as it were, through the mothers and not through the fathers, as is the practice with us.
The question of mother-right, for example, has had many volumes written upon it, most of whose authors have held that the ancient family had in it no known father, but was headed by a mother of many men;