Inheritance and succession to public office among the Fanti are determined mostly by matrilineal descent, as is common among most Akan peoples.
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Because of the heavy emphasis on clan and matrilineal descent, the father played a relatively minor role in the lives of his children.
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Since Jewish law defines Jewishness through matrilineal descent, Israel demands that these new arrivals convert to Judaism if they want to marry or divorce.
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One possibility is that later unease of a matrilineal descent from the praise-poetry's Gofraid led to the assumption of a patrilineal link with him.
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Because of the tradition of matrilineal descent, some Jewish women believe that the donor has to be Jewish for the child to be considered Jewish.
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With the birth of alternative branches of Judaism and the rise in intermarriage in the 20th century, questions about the law of matrilineal descent arose.
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Matrilateral cross-cousin marriage in societies with matrilineal descent meant that a male married into the family his mother's brother, building an alliance between the two families.
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Starkly so, Reform Judaism rejected the traditional definition of a Jew via matrilineal descent, effectively severing the united peoplehood that had linked Reform and non-Reform movements.
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Lungu people comprise several clans and many subclans based on matrilineal descent, some with their own dialects, which are depicted as separate tribes on older ethnographic maps.
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The Chickasaw are divided in two groups ( matrilineal descent, in which children were considered to be part of the mother's clan, whence they gained their status.
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