patrilocal


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pat·ri·lo·cal

 (păt′rə-lō′kəl)
adj.
1. Anthropology Of or relating to residence with a husband's kin group or clan.
2. Zoology Of or relating to the tendency of females to leave their natal group and reside in or mate with males of a different group: Chimpanzees are patrilocal.

pat′ri·lo·cal′i·ty (-kăl′ĭ-tē) n.
pat′ri·lo′cal·ly adv.
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patrilocal

(ˌpætrɪˈləʊkəl)
adj
(Sociology) having or relating to a marriage pattern in which the couple lives with the husband's family
ˌpatriˈlocally adv
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About half of the Ausaima population were people who had married into the Ausaima local tribe, and most of these persons were Mutsun women, for Costanoan local tribes were patrilocal. Each local tribe had its own version of Costanoan, as shown by the Ausaima data.
Our study begins to disentangle patrilocal, patrilineal, and general gender attitudes to examine how these parental gender attitudes are transmitted to their children as cultural capital and how these attitudes and behaviors may be converted to higher educational attainment levels for girls and boys.
This, now discontinued practice, leaves a pattern of scars visually emphasizing the abdomen of a woman who is now considered having acquired the skin-knowledge of an adult woman (or Afek) and is ready to move from a patrilocal dwelling to a life with a husband.
Women are subjected to patrilocal residences, patrilineal inheritances and social isolation (n.d.).27 The Central Market area of the Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi consists of the 'museumified' remains of the partition widows who exist as 'historical residue material' rooted through the 'fractious processes of unbecoming' (Kaur, 2005, p.
Esta querencia de las elites por el interior gallego se explica, entre otras razones, por la sistematica utilizacion que hicieron a lo largo del Antiguo Regimen, de un sistema hereditario no igualitario de corte patrilocal que, tras haberse gestado en los siglos XVI y XVII, alcanzo su plena madurez en la primera mitad del siglo XVIII (Sobrado Correa, 2001b, pp.