PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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#Meghalaya is a #MatrilinealSociety . In terms of #ancestral #descent , the #kinship system is #traced through the #maternal instead of paternal line, unlike other parts of the world.
#India is largely a #patrilineal country, but this state of the North East differs.
The #culture of Meghalaya brings to its people, a #different #lifestyle where #lineage & #inheritance are traced through #women w/ children being part of the #mother ’s kinship group...
https://themeghalayan.com/reflecting-on-matriliny/
#meghalaya #matrilinealsociety #ancestral #descent #kinship #traced #maternal #india #patrilineal #culture #different #lifestyle #lineage #inheritance #women #mother #matriarch #womenled
Tracy White · @traced
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I read The White Album. Ocean Vuong refers to it in his poem "Not Even".
This was my first time reading her writing. Short to the point sentences, almost dead pan. The way she talks about her MS diagnosis sticks with me. I appreciate the way she laces glimpses of her life into her observations of other peoples lives.