The Matrilocal Tribe

Human Nature

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-200

  Jones, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Demic expansion; Frontier; Kinship; Matricentric; Matrilineality; Matrilocality; Warfare

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FOOD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; WAR;

AFRICA; BRAZIL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FOOD; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LANGUAGE; MARRIAGE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; WAR;

EID: 79958800661     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-011-9108-6     Document Type: Article

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