matrilocal in English
adjective
1
of or denoting a custom in marriage whereby the husband goes to live with the wife's community.
In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence among groups in the Central Highlands for its implied association with a ‘primitive’, benighted phase of history.
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1. MAtriarchies may also be confused with matrilineal, matrilocal, and matrifocal
2. The combination of father-sibs with the Avunculate is a change from matrilocal to patrilocal residence