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What is patrilocality?

What is patrilocality? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sociology) A socially instituted practice whereupon a married couple lives with or near the family of the husband.
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Patriliny and patrilocality are the key features of such a system.
This study was designed to measure the degree of Y-chromosome structure on a global scale and to test the global applicability of the patrilocality hypothesis.
That idea was based on a common marriage practice called patrilocality, wherein women tended to move from their natal village to their husbands' village.
Taylor's research on North Pentecost gives a sense of the local grounding of marriage among Sia Raga, given matrilineal descent and patrilocality.
Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, where and to whom have women belonged?
In North Pentecost, the spiralling relationships that oscillate between matriliny and patrilocality present women with a double burden.

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