Download or read book Matrilineal Kinship written by David Murray Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART 2: VARIATION IN MATRILINEAL SYSTEMS: 10. Descent-Groups of Settled and Mobile Cultivators. 11. Descent-Groups among Settled Cultivators. 12.Descent-Griup among Mobile Cultivators. 13. Variations in residence. 14. Variation of Interpersonal Kinship relationships. 15. Variation in Preferential Marriage Forms. 16. The Modern Disintegration of Matrilineal Descent Groups. PART 3: CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS. 17. Aberle, David F.; Matrilineal Descent in Cross-cultural perspective.