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Matrilocal .
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Native America • Found in China (Yunnan, Sichuan), India * Also called "uxorilocal": living with the uncle / mother's-brother
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Note 118: CS 935; Proto-Ruvu * ujengele "marriage negotiations, uxorilocal marriage arrangements."
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They practiced uxorilocal marriage, and they managed inheritance along the line of a woman's matrilineage.
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Matrilineal bridges often factored in the clustering of families in particular coves and harbors; and matrilocal or uxorilocal residence patterns played a crucial role in community formation, as many couples established themselves on land already occupied by the wife or apportioned from or adjacent to the family property of the wife.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Matrilocal and uxorilocal residence patterns often featured in community formation, as male immigrants settled in the home communities of their wives.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Their presence provided the basis for population permanence, and matrilocal or uxorilocal residence patterns featured strongly in shaping the contours of settlement.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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67 What the history of the lineage system suggests was surmised by anthropologist Marja-Liisa Swantz when she explained that "the Zaramo system was matrilineal and largely uxorilocal, but it had a clear bilineal emphasis, which made it highly adaptable."
chained_bear commented on the word uxorilocal
Applied to or denoting residence after marriage in the area of the wife's home or community. (uxor=wife)
October 9, 2007