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Matrilocal residence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In social anthropology, matrilocal residence or matrilocality (also uxorilocal residence or uxorilocality ) is a term referring to the societal system in which a married couple resides with or...
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List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following list includes societies that have been identified as matrilineal or matrilocal in ethnographic literature. Depending on the ideological outlook of the author, they may have been identifi...
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Matrilocal residence is instituted by a rule that a woman remains in her mother's household after reaching maturity and brings her husband to live with her family after marriage. Sons, conversely, move out of their natal household after marriage to join their wife's household.
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The Khasis have matrilocal residence and matrilineal descent. Participation in the family religion and the common sepulchre, where bones of the members of the family are interred after death, are the two elements that bind the members together.
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Dictionary Home; AnthroBase Home; Bookmark, cite or print this page ... When a man and woman, after they marry, move to the woman's home to live. (See patrilocal, matrilineal, matrilateral, kinship.)
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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary ... matrilocal (not comparable) ... Positive; matrilocal...
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