postmarital

Examples

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• Finally, adehyee's matrilineal land may be used to attract husbands and evade the prevalent norm which establishes a virilocal postmarital residential model.

  Academic text (1998)

• Fortes's field survey shows that about half of the wives who are supposed to reside in their husbands' compounds as a consequence of a postmarital virilocal norm in reality live in their own matrilineal households.

  Academic text (1998)

• In this connection, the data from rural north China show that there has indeed been a shift toward conjugal independence along with the development of the rural economy, although the rise of conjugality does not always show a correlation with changes in family structure and postmarital residence.

  Academic text (1997)

• A prevalent virilocal postmarital arrangement or a patrilocal pattern of residence would have contradicted the forging principle of the social structure.

  Academic text (1998)

• Patrilocal postmarital residence and the division of labor by gender transformed clan entitlements into land use patterns that, at first glance, appear patrilineal.

  Academic text (1991)

• He therefore proposed a rather unusual postmarital residential system termed duolocality: man and wife would live in their matrilineal households, children being brought up by their mothers (Fortes 1949:10-11).

  Academic text (1998)

• After their wedding, they faced various postmarital challenges that tested their relationship.

• The couple attended workshops to improve their communication during their postmarital years.

• Postmarital responsibilities included managing a household and planning for the future together.

Synonyms

P

postnuptial

vspostmarital

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Happening after a marriage

focuses on the period and events after marriage rather than mere occurrence

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology