patricentricadj.
/ˌpatrᵻˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /ˌpeɪtrəˈsɛntrɪk/ Cultural Anthropology.
Centred or based on the father; having the father as the head of the family or household.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective] > relating to a family or household > patriarchal
patriarchal1606
paterfamiliar1650
patricentric1939
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 44 621 Freud, therefore, in his authoritarian and patricentric character must be recognized as a typical representative of a society which demands obedience and subjection.
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society vii. 222 The patricentric family..is attached to a locality.
1972 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 38 85 Klein examined the development of patricentric slave households amidst the traditionally matrilineal Akan people.
2002 Financial Express (Nexis) 21 Dec. Dany calls into question many a notion about the patricentric institution of the family and the social roles of the father and the husband.
Derivatives
patricenˈtricity n.
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1968 Amer. Anthropologist 70 328/2 At the left of the space..is a set of traits that suggest settledness of a tribe... At the lower left is a set suggesting patricentricity.
1986 Afr. Stud. Rev. 29 83 I show more recent patricentricity with respect to the passage of female-owned cocoa farms to brothers rather than sisters.
2000 A. Young Women who became Men ii. 13 (heading) Tree of blood, tree of milk: patriarchy and patricentricity in rural Albania.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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