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What does matrilocal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a married couple) Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
  2. (anthropology, of a people of culture) In which newly married couples live with the female's family.
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I therefore propose to term the three types matrilocal, removal, and patrilocal marriages.
Residence is also matrilocal, so that young couples go to live with the wife's family.
Each band is related to a geographic area, and based on a family group that maintains matrilocal residence.
The basic socioeconomic unit was the matrilocal extended family, a group of one or more related women, their husbands and unmarried sons, and their daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren.
Western apologists for tyranny argue that women retain power within the tribe's matrilocal family units.
Marriage is matrilocal, giving rise to extended families of several generations in which the son-in-law is under the authority of his wife's father.

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