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Matriliny is a category for books centered on descent, inheritance, and belonging through the mother’s line, exploring how maternal kinship shapes identity, property, clan membership, naming, and care. Spanning anthropology, history, law, sociology, genealogy, and literature, it includes ethnographies of matrilineal cultures, historical and legal studies of land and lineage, family sagas and memoirs that trace maternal ancestry, and fiction—realist or speculative—that imagines matrilineal worlds. These works examine how motherline systems endure and adapt amid migration, colonialism, religion, and modern economies, and how they intersect with gender, class, and culture. Distinct from matriarchy, matriliny highlights the centrality of maternal kin without presuming female political rule, inviting readers to rethink power, kinship, and continuity through the motherline.

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