matrilocal residence

Matrilocal residence further enhanced the position of women in society.

Matrilocal residence is found most often in horticultural societies.

Among men who can afford it, the preferred form of marriage appears to be polygyny with matrilocal residence.

Matrilocal residence may be regarded as the opposite of patrilocal residence.

Lahu trace descent bilaterally, and typically practice matrilocal residence.

Gimbutas goes so far as to assert: "The indirect results indicate an endogamous, matrilocal residence."

However, Korotayev's tests show that the female contribution to subsistence does correlate significantly with matrilocal residence in general.

Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies.

Upon marriage sons would leave their natal household, and sons-in-law would move in (see matrilocal residence).

Seminoles continued their distinctive life, such as "clan-based matrilocal residence in scattered thatched-roof chickee camps."

Although the Western Apache usually practiced matrilocal residence, sometimes the eldest son chose to bring his wife to live with his parents after marriage.

Native communities in southern California of the Chumash Indians, practiced Matrilocal residence.

- Matrilocal residence (compare Patrilocal residence)

Traditionally, the Iroquois had lived in communal longhouses based on matrilineal descent and matrilocal residence, an arrangement giving women much solidarity and power.

Thus, the extended family is connected through a lineage of women who live together (that is, matrilocal residence), into which men may enter upon marriage (leaving behind his parents' family).

Although an increase in the female contribution to subsistence tends to lead to matrilocal residence, it also tends simultaneously to lead to general non-sororal polygyny which effectively destroys matrilocality.

In 1952 the Murphys set out to do fieldwork for a year among the Munduruku of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, where they studied, among other things, the dynamics of a patrilineal society with matrilocal residence patterns.