Hartland, E: Evolution of Kinship -

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Excerpt from The Evolution of Kinship: An African Study

In the meantime it is obvious that among the Baila matrilineal descent is fighting a losing battle, and there can be little doubt that, if they had been left to the play of the forces of native culture only, they would sooner or later have adopted patrilineal kinship, as other Bantu tribes have done.

While the tendency to change from kinship through the mother to kinship through the father is universal among the Bantu every tribe seeks for itself the solution of the problem how to effect the transfer. We will inquire how some of them have accomplished or are seeking to accomplish it.

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