Sentence examples for tracing descent from inspiring English sources

Although Muslim, the Minangkabau are matrilineal, tracing descent and inheritance through the female line.

The descent line in Samoa, for example, consists of a group of people tracing descent in the male line from a common mythical ancestor.

Almost all Melanesian societies are patrilineal, tracing descent through the male line, and even matrilineal societies, where descent is traced through the female line, remain patriarchal i.e., male-dominated.

Clan: "a group of people tracing descent from a common ancestor".

As mentioned earlier, all the Peshwa during Shivaji's rule were Deshastha Brahmins and many modern families who have surname, Peshwe, are in fact Deshastha Brahmins tracing descent to Shivaji's Peshwa, Moropant Pingle or Sonopant Dabir.

The large royal clan traced descent from the first king and culture hero, Nyikang (Nyikango).

Most often, moieties are groups that are exogamous, or outmarrying, that are of unilineal descent (tracing ancestry through either the male or female line, but not both), and that have complementary roles in society.

Shaykh Aḥmad, who through his paternal line traced his descent from the caliph ʿUmar I (the second caliph of Islam), received a traditional Islamic education at home and later at Siālkot (now in Pakistan).

Medieval French chronicles usually began the story of the French people by tracing their descent from some hero of the Trojan War.

The Muslim Jats in the western regions are organized in hundreds of groups tracing their descent through paternal lines; they are mostly camel herders or labourers.

The Mbembe trace descent through both matrilineal and patrilineal lines.