| 1. | Many of the Plains Aborigines were matrilineal / matrifocal societies.
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| 2. | Where matrifocal families are common, marriage is less common.
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| 3. | J . F . del Giorgio insists on a matrifocal, matrilocal, matrilineal Paleolithic society.
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| 4. | "A family or domestic group is matrifocal when it is centred on a woman and her children.
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| 5. | They were also matrifocal : when a young couple married, they lived with the woman's family.
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| 6. | She questions whether Gimbutas's archaeological findings adequately support the claim that these societies were matriarchal or matrifocal.
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| 7. | The concept of the matrifocal family was introduced to the study of Caribbean societies by Raymond Smith in 1956.
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| 8. | Most modern anthropologists reject the idea of a prehistoric matriarchy, but recognize matrilineal and matrifocal groups throughout human history.
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| 9. | Throughout, Smith argues that matrifocal kinship should be seen as a subsystem wthin a larger stratified society and its cultural values.
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| 10. | Although status was constituted within a matrilineal, matrifocal society, some elite men could take several wives for political or social reasons.
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