Matrilineal Kinship System

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Marriage may help identify children in terms of helping them with their own kinship ties in terms of a mother, father and also relatives. Marriage is defined as two individuals that are dependent towards each other that last as they can handle in addition, they may have the children (Westermarck, 1891). There are three forms of kinship systems which are Unilineal, Cognatic and also Bilateral. However, Unilineal can also be classified between Patrilineal and also matrilineal. Each of these forms can be seen on different types of kinships in which may be the reason on the marriages of these forms. In this essay will be discussion on the marriages on the Unilineal type of marriages where the case study will be the Minangkabau. Firstly, the matrilineal means lineage drawn from mother. It means that the matrilineal kinship system are characterised as the …show more content…

The reason that they believe that siblings of different gender would benefit more in terms of being the significant function for the kinship systems that follows the matrilineal kinship systems. They only time they are allowed to be with their wife is during the night time. A husband is seen as the guest of the house of the wife (Astuti, 2012). The next day, they are to go back to their mother’s house. The Minangkabau society shows that even when the husband are sick, they would still be send to their mothers home. In addition to this, when the husband is dead, the body is to be buried at the mother’s graveyard ‘paruik’ in which means her sub-lineage that is her family members of the mother’s side. The only thing that they give is some of their money they gained from their jobs. The jobs they got are from working outside the group in order to find more opportunities. This is because of the limitation to feed people at the available land (Naim,

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