Workshop Theme

Themes in this year’s conference included theoretical as well as ethnographic and practical perspectives.  Among the questions explored:

  • How should we evaluate the state of research on matrilineal society? 
  • Should we consider matrilineal systems not only as more or less accidental structures, but rather as cultural systems (in the Geertz sense of the term)? 
  • What are the distinctions and differentiations among terms frequently used, and how valid are they: matriarchal, matricentric, mastrifocal?
  • What theoretical and practical consequences result from such a consideration?

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