virilocal

Examples

• All

• In spite of the Han preference for virilocal marriages, a significant minority of Han men in Taiwan married uxorilocally.

  Academic text (2001)

• As with other types of marriages, women enter their virilocal households with rights that are tentative and conditional.

  Academic text (1994)

• To have so many adult daughters living patrilocally is unusual, given the virilocal rule.

  Academic text (2002)

• For example, women are loathe to leave their mothers and sisters in permanent, virilocal residence.

  Academic text (1992)

• The Mikea are organized into patrilineal bands and are virilocal.

  Academic text (1991)

• Virilocal women, on the other hand, experience a dislocation from their natal kin-based identity and privileges.

  Academic text (1994)

• Female clan members were dispersed through virilocal marriage, and males tended to form localized patrilineages.

  Academic text (1998)

• In fact, when a young married woman expresses her unhappiness with her husband or with her virilocal household, the husband explains away her dissatisfaction as a consequence of her parents' instant agreement to the marriage.

  Academic text (1994)

• If she marries into another village—among the Ejagham, marriage is usually virilocal—she may enter the association and hold her office there.

  Academic text (1998)

• As postmarital residence is normally virilocal, sons and daughters of chiefs and of mmusua panin are brought up in the chiefs' household, the ahenefie.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

P

patrilocal

vsvirilocal

• Specialized

1 8.9

A custom where a married couple lives with or near the husband's family

is a structured social arrangement rather than a simple custom

Antonyms

U

uxorilocal

• Specialized

9.9

A custom where a married couple lives with or near the wife's family

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology