Matriarchal legitimacy being natural cannot become a valued imposed norm

Evidence

In matriarchal societies legitimacy was “natural” (impossible, fôr example, to doubt the function of the mother) and could not have been raised to the status of a value.* Afr”ÎCan cultures, consequently, despite the “chain” of Ancestors, do not seem to me to obey filiation ‘s hidden violence. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes natural (matriarchal) from valorized (patriarchal) filiation, key to Glissant’s account of non-essentialist kinship.
• XREF: Connects to Glissant’s opacity/rhizome identity as an alternative to patriarchal filiation-based essentialism. — connects to: Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy; Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction; Virtue as embodied necessity is not a chosen or rejectable stance — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 468

Broader Connections

• Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction #corroborates (0.80)
• Virtue as embodied necessity is not a chosen or rejectable stance #corroborates (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 468
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #complicates (0.75)