The “modern studies” of a system named for these people was founded by the activist Heide Göttner-Abendroth. Friedrich Engels theorized that “primitive communism” first arose in social structures named for these people, citing Lewis Morgan’s Ancient Society. The Lithuanian scholar Marija Gimbutas claimed that a social structure named for these people dominated in “Old Europe” until the invasion of the Kurgan culture. The Moynihan Report controversially posited the “Black” form of a social structure named for these people as a downstream effect of over-incarceration. These people dominate in “focal” structures named for them common in the Caribbean, which is related to a system where kinship is “lineal” in them, such as among the Iroquois. For 10 points, name these people who name a social structure contrasted with patriarchy. ■END■
ANSWER: mothers [accept matriarchs or matriarchy or Modern Matriarchal Studies or Black Matriarchy; accept matristic; accept matrifocal; accept matrilocal; accept matrilineal; prompt on women; prompt on parents]
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