Palauan culture embraces matrilineal traditions. Women have traditional authority over land and oversee clan finances. Palau ...

Trekking through Uganda’s lush Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, I unearthed profound connections between my relationships and the ...

In the Palauan matrilineal system, which still exists, nuclear families and extended families, called clans, were related through the mother's side of the family. The mother's brother had a role ...

For those fortunate enough to grow up with grandmothers involved in their upbringing, childhood memories are often painted ...

Today, we will say what most Malawi don’t like. Who cares? Payere Payere. First, the Ngoni were patrilineal and believed in a centralised form of administration, says Parsons. They paid dowry to the ...

A groundbreaking research project is finally building the tools to translate just how whales and other creatures communicate.

Knives and bombs do not themselves decide whom to kill. They are dumb tools, lacking the intelligence necessary to process ...

German historian and journalist Wieland Wagner called for Japanese to address the problems of their symbolic emperor system, ...

That's why the matrilineal side of your family is called the "distaff side".) If you spin with a distaff of the type shown here, you can walk and spin (with a spindle) at the same time. Other types of ...

Makthi Thangal wanted his co-religionists to focus less on Arabic and more on Malayalam and English, and advocated ...

Despite women’s centrality in family and clan dynamics where the children take the clan name of their mother, they remain sidelined in key decision-making bodies like the Dorbar Shnong or A·kingrangni ...

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