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Patrilocal vs Coresidence - What's the difference?

patrilocal | coresidence |

As an adjective patrilocal

is (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.

As a noun coresidence is

(anthropology) living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.

patrilocal

English

Adjective

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  • (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
  • (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the male's family.

    • Synonyms

    * virilocal

    See also

    * matrilocal, uxorilocal * neolocal * duolocal

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    coresidence

    English

    Noun

  • (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
  • * 1979 , Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon , Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-00770-5, pages 42–3:
    • The question of coresidence' is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is ' coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).