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virilocal, a. Anthrop.|ˌvɪrɪˈləʊkəl|
[f. L. virī-lis virile a. + local a. 2.]
Pertaining to or designating a woman's residence after marriage in the domicile of her husband. Cf. patrilocal, uxorilocal adjs.
1948[see uxorilocal a.]. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity Afr. Soc. p. xviii, It is possible that hunting, a purely masculine pursuit, and virilocal marriage, which binds together male kin in local descent groups, are parallel expressions of structural opposition between men and women in this matrilineal society. 1969in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 137 A consequence of the rigidly virilocal marriage and settlement pattern.
Hence viriloˈcality; viriˈlocally adv.
1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity Afr. Soc. p. xviii, Within villages the dominant principles influencing residence were maternal descent and virilocality. Ibid. ii. 55 Women are often brought up patrilocally, marry virilocally, and after divorce reside avunculocally until remarriage. 1974G. H. Gossen in N. Hammond Mesoamerican Archaeol. 219 Chamulas live virilocally in dispersed hamlets. |