Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015)

Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by contingencies on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:45PM (#12229598)

Well, if you think about it from a reductionist perspective, in non-monogamous societies children were by definition primarily socially familiar with their mothers, because they were the only family actually known.

Evidence of matriarchy includes living matriarchal societies (eg. the Mosuo people). I am no expert, though. If you look at Wikipedia's matriarchy page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy#Asia I actually live in Yunnan, which is smack bang in the middle of all of the Asian examples.

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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by duaneb on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:32PM (#12229726)

What do you mean? what makes you think there is any distinction between family and community outside of incest taboos, which may not have even existed in prehistory? What does an identification of a mother as family have to do with matriarchies? You haven't even made an argument.

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