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patrilocal

[ pa-truh-loh-kuhl, pey- ]

adjective

, Anthropology.


patrilocal

/ ˌpætrɪˈləʊkəl /

adjective

  1. having or relating to a marriage pattern in which the couple lives with the husband's family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌpatriˈlocally, adverb
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Other Words From

  • patri·lo·cali·ty noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of patrilocal1

First recorded in 1905–10; patri- + local
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Example Sentences

But the DNA shows their patrilocal traditions persisted.

IBD analysis showed how women influenced Gurgy’s patrilocal community.

That suggests that among these Neolithic Britons, women were buried with the family of their mates, not their parents—an echo of arrangements in the later El Argar culture that opens the possibility that the people at Hazleton were patrilocal, too.

For example, if hunter-gatherer societies were patrilocal—with women leaving home to marry men from other communities—“pottery could be a female craft that spread from village to village through marriage,” McLaughlin says.

Most modern human cultures are also patrilocal, underscoring another way that Neanderthals and modern humans were similar.

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