"Postmarital" Residence Patterns

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• matrilocal
  
  
  • Matrilocal Residence -- Brian Schwimmer

• patrilocal
  
  
  • Patrilocal Residence -- Brian Schwimmer

• uxorilocal -- postmarital residence practice where a married couple settles in the locale of the woman's parents
  
  
  • basically synonomous with matrilocal
    
    
• avunculocal --
  
  
  • Avunculocal Residence -- Brian Schwimmer
    
    
• virilocal -- after marriage the newlywed couple settles in the locality of the husband's primary conjugal-natal family
  
  
  • "residence of the father"

   

• ambilocal -- postmarital residence pattern in which the couple may reside with either the husband's or the wife's group

• bilocal -- it's up to the couple to decide where to live
  
  
  • usually this occurs where there is little fixed property and weak social organization

  

   

   

• neolocal -- independent establishment of residence without too much reference to the prior location of the primary conjugal-natal family
  
  
  • Neolocal Residence -- Brian Schwimmer