Longhouse of the matrilineal Tay people of Vietnam highlands - TopicsExpress



          

Longhouse of the matrilineal Tay people of Vietnam highlands (historically a stronghold of mother-right) with ladders representing ancestral mothers and brothers. A lot of longhouse cultures are matrilineal, most famously the Haudenosaunee ("Longhouse People," alias Six Nations of the Iroquois) and also the Minangkabau of Sumatra, some aboriginal peoples in southern Cambodia and in the Bantu Matrilineal Belt in south-central Africa, and probably those in neolithic eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Rep., parts ofGermany, and the Balkans). Not all longhouse cultures are matrilineal however, as witness the Vikings or the Iban ("Dayak") of Borneo (see post below).
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:31:12 +0000

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