скорее в обратную сторону,
излагает, что новогвинейское общество тотально патриархально
сейчас в антропологии принято отрицать матриархат целиком

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy

"The anthropologist Margaret Mead said, "All the claims so glibly made about societies ruled by women are nonsense. We have no reason to believe that they ever existed. ... men everywhere have been in charge of running the show. ... men have always been the leaders in public affairs and the final authorities at home."

The Britannica article goes on to note, "The view of matriarchy as constituting a stage of cultural development is now generally discredited. Furthermore, the consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that a strictly matriarchal society never existed."

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соответственно, матрилинейное общество - ближайшее приближение
к матриархату, известное науке