Pt. 1: Nine matrilineal kinship systems
Plateau Tonga / Elizabeth Colson
Truk / David M. Schneider
Trobriand / George H. Fathauer
Ashanti / Harry W. Basehart
Nayar: Central Kerala / Kathleen Gough
Tiyyar: North Kerala / Kathleen Gough
Mappilla: North Kerala / Kathleen Gough
Pt. 2: Variation in matrilineal systems
Descent groups of settled and mobile cultivators / Kathleen Gough
Descent-group variation among settled cultivators / Kathleen Gough
Descnet-gorup variation amoung mobile cultivators / Kathleen Gough
Variation in residence / Kathleen Gough
Variation in interpersonal kinship relationships / Kathleen Gough
Variation in preferential marriage forms / Kathleen Gough
The modern disintergration of matrilineal descent groups / Kathleen Gough
Pt. 3: Cross-cultural comparisons
Matrilineal descent in cross-cultural perspective / David F. Aberle.
