Like most post-plantation societies, Haiti is traditionally "matrifocal" -- with the household unit centering on the mother and where she lives. ❋ Mark Schuller (2012)
No - but it does suggest an extremely high standard for the brands that will take on this "matrifocal" challenge. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So then I needed to study matrifocal societies to see how they worked. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They remained, for example, unflaggingly matrilineal and matrifocal into recent eras. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Such an emphasis, or reasoning, for the * mwali life position would make far more obvious sociocultural sense in matrilineal and matrifocal societies than imagining that marriage and male sexual pleasure were most important. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or back to a time in history where people lived in peace with nature: back to matrifocal times. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As to matrifocal societies, I would settle for an equifocal one. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Minangkabau, the society recognized among anthropologists as the world's largest and most stable surviving matriarchy* (though some prefer to call it a gylany, matrix, matrifocal or matricentric society, or something else to avoid conjuring images of mythical Amazons). ❋ Unknown (2010)
For 30,000 years we had a matrifocal society that had great reverence for life in all its forms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Afro-Trini family has always been predominantly single-parent and matrifocal. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The author also believes that we are evolving back towards a matrifocal society since the sexual revolution of the 60s. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The society is matrilineal, matrilocal and perhaps matrifocal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
During this period, we've seen blended qualities of both patrifocal and matrifocal frames of reference. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now, here's the marketing angle: Lehman suggests women similarly shifted their position in the consumer realm, from purchasing goods for "adornment" (or status) to focusing on deeper meaning / aesthetics (which may mean consuming less or differently) - in what he refers to as a "matrifocal" frame of reference. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The runaway consumer economy is a direct manifestation of a return to a matrifocal society, only the unique productions of culture have become the focus of our attentions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
