Patrilocal

Word PATRILOCAL
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Definitions and meanings of "Patrilocal"

What do we mean by patrilocal?

Of or relating to residence with a husband's kin group or clan. adjective

Of or relating to the tendency of females to leave their natal group and reside in or mate with males of a different group. adjective

Living with the family of the husband. adjective

In which newly married couples live with the male's family. adjective

(of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.

(of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.

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The word "patrilocal" in example sentences

The northern type of family is thus patrilineal and patrilocal and the married women in such a family live in the house of their father-in-law (sasural). ❋ India (2009)

In an effort to relieve some of the inter-generational and spousal tensions that had arisen in the past from patrilocal residence after marriage, a rabbinical decree pronounced in 1952 permitted young couples to live away from their parents-in-law (Laskier). ❋ Unknown (2009)

My gut says - duh - of course patrilocal arrangements would be poorer for humans females. ❋ Field Notes (2008)

Are patrilocal arrangements more likely to be lousy for women than matrilocal ones? ❋ Field Notes (2008)

Working from the assumption that "a consolidated, stable population tends to have a strong patrilineal-patrilocal character," 9 he fell back on a male-centered demographic technique of surname sieving to measure the stability of settlement, noting some matrilineal extensions, but more as interesting diversions than as evidence of earlier, women-centered continuities. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As a result of patrilocal, clan-exogamous marriage, every community traditionally contained a mix of women from different places, who usually arrived at their vukatini knowing few people other than their husband. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Gordon Handcock uses this method in his examination of English migrations to and settlement in Newfoundland. 42 But this technique has a patrilineal-patrilocal bias that does not accommodate alternative forms of continuities in early community formation in Newfoundland. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Since chimpanzees are patrilocal (males remain in their natal group while females migrate at puberty) any cultural traits learned by young males would remain in the society while young females would transfer that same trait to nearby societies. ❋ EMJ [email protected] (2010)

Mothers-in-law are very important in patrilineal, patrilocal systems; but not so much in matrilineal, matrilocal systems. ❋ Unknown (2008)

a position subordinate to men, inhabiting a sphere of activity that was limited by ideology and social custom to serving the needs of a patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal world. ❋ Unknown (1999)

But there was an assumption in these writings of an inexorable "evolution" towards a patrilineal, patrilocal, patriarchal society in which women’s status and experiences were seen as secondary, diversionary, or anomalous. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But your rules produce an unusual setup; each ship is a patrilocal matriarchy. " ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1957)

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