matriclan
(ˈmætrɪklæn)
[f. matri- + clan n.]
A matrilineal clan.
| 1950 D. Forde in Radcliffe-Brown & Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 309 All members of a matriclan within a village..regard one another as kin. 1957 Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXXXVII. 92 But wealth, that is money and livestock, is vested in the matriclan... The matriclan, holding only moveable property, is a non-localized descent group. 1959 G. D. Mitchell Sociol. 69 Tribal offences include sexual relations between a man and a woman of the same matri-clan. |