matrilocal, a.
(mætrɪˈləʊkəl)
[f. matri- + local a.]
Applied to the custom in certain social groups for a married couple to settle in the wife's home or community.
| 1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations & Group Marriage Austral. iii. 30 When the husband removes and lives in his wife's group the marriage is matrilocal. 1927 Contemp. Rev. July 84 The clan is held together by matrilocal marriage. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 June 390/2 Marriage is matrilocal, or, in other words, the man goes to live with his wife. 1949 M. Fortes Social Struct. 70 Households with female heads can be..‘matrilocal’, that is, made up of a woman and her dependants by marriage and motherhood. 1956 R. Pieris Sinhalese Social Organization vi. i. 203 In the binna (matrilocal) marriage, the husband lived in his wife's parental home. 1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 250 But the Apache ‘great family’, with matrilocal residence after marriage, has its special terminology. 1966 Nye & Berardo Emerging Conceptual Frameworks in Family Analysis ii. 26 The extended family is a group founded on kinship and locality, and resulting from the rules of patrilocal or matrilocal marriage. |
Hence matriloˈcality, the custom of matrilocal residence; matriˈlocally adv., in a matrilocal manner.
| 1935 Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXVI. 262 The increasing amount of patrilocal marriages instead of the former pure matrilocality of the people. 1938 Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXVIII. 301 The Hopi also transmit functions, such as priesthood and office, from male to male, without renouncing their matrilocality. Ibid., Matrilocality here means, fundamentally, the succession of female descendants each one of whom remains her whole life in one spot. 1941 Sudan Notes & Rec. XXIV. 55 In a few cases the Shilluk settle matrilocally. 1963 Economist 13 Apr. 157/2 A mass of theorising about ‘matrilocality’ and the Cockney Mum. |