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  2. Patrilocal residence - Wikipedia

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    In a patrilocal society, when a man marries, his wife joins him in his father's home or compound, where they raise their children. These children will follow the same pattern. Sons will stay and daughters will move in with their husbands' families. Families living in a patrilocal residence generally assume joint ownership of domestic sources.

  3. Matrilocal residence - Wikipedia

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    Filipinos (both matrilocal and patrilocal) Garo; Hopi; Iban (both matrilocal and patrilocal) Iroquois; Jaintia; Karen; Kerinci; Khasi; Marshallese; Minangkabau; Mosuo (separate residence; each lives in mother's household) Nair people of Kerala; Pueblos, among whom "matrilineality ... seemed to be associated with matrilocality" [10] Siraya ...

  4. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    Patrilocal Matrilineal Bontoc: Asia: Philippines: Albert Jenks Albert Bacdayan: 1905 1974 Boyowan: Australasia: Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea: Patrilocal Matrilineal Bronisław Malinowski: 1916 Bribri: North America: Costa Rica: Matrilocal Matrilineal William More Gabb: 1875 Bunt: Asia: India: Patrilocal Matrilineal E Kathleen Gough: 1954 ...

  5. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineality, also called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.

  6. Patrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side [1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.

  7. Matrilateral - Wikipedia

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    The term matrilateral describes kin (relatives) "on the mother's side".. Social anthropologists have underlined that even where a social group demonstrates a strong emphasis on one or other line of inheritance (matrilineal or patrilineal), relatives who fall outside this unilineal grouping will not simply be ignored.

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  9. Moiety (kinship) - Wikipedia

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    In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety (/ ˈ m ɔɪ ə t i /) is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society.In such cases, the community usually has unilineal descent (either patri-or matrilineal) so that any individual belongs to one of the two moiety groups by birth, and all marriages take place between members of opposite moieties.