Cultural Residence Patterns Overview

Ambilocal Residence

• Murdock's concept—couples alternate residence between husband's and wife's groups.
• Example includes Dobuans, who switch between matrilocality and avunculocality.

Matrilocal/Avunculocal Option

• Residence is restricted to either matrilocal or avunculocal arrangements.

Avunculocal/Virilocal Option

• Similar to bilocal but limited to avunculocal or virilocal residences.

Neolocal Residence

• Newlyweds establish a home separate from both families' relatives.

Duolocal Residence

• Spouses reside within their respective natal groups, lacking a shared household.

Matri-Patrilocal System

• New couples initially live with the bride’s family and later shift permanently to the groom's group.

Respect Relationships

• Defined behavior patterns indicating standardized respect among kin.

Restricted Exchange in Marriage

• A structured marriage exchange system between two groups that can expand over time.

Secondary Relatives

• Those related to primary relatives of Ego, like grandparents or in-laws.

Section System

• Society divided into social categories based on rules of descent and alliance, often requiring marriage within sections.

Segmentary Systems

• Descent categories linked to ancestors, resulting in a tree-like structure of relationships.

Segmentation

• Process where lineage segments split into distinct sub-lineages, often due to political or demographic changes.

Sept

• A non-unilineal descent group, often associated with a clan.

Sib

• Dispersed unilineal descent groups, often sharing a mythical ancestor.

Sister-Exchange

• A practice where two men exchange sisters in marriage.

Sororal Polygyany

• A man marrying two or more sisters simultaneously, distinct from the sororate.

Sororate

• Entitles a man to marry his deceased wife's sister, perpetuating marital bonds.

Symmetrical Alliance

• A marriage system characterized by direct exchanges involving kinship ties.

Symmetrical Cross-Cousin Marriage

• Marriage between mother's brother’s daughter or father's sister’s daughter.

Teknonymy

• Naming practice where parents derive their names from their children, emphasizing parental identity.

Tertiary Relatives

• Primary relatives of Ego’s secondary relatives, including aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Totemism

• Symbolic connections between social groups (lineages or clans) and natural entities.

Affinity

• Relationships established through marriage, representing links between corporate groups via marriage.

Agamy

• Absence of regulations governing marriage, allowing for a lack of formal marital rules.

Agnatic

• Relatives defined through patrilineal descent lines.

Alliance

• A theoretical framework emphasizing continuous marital interactions for social integration.

Ambilateral

• Referring to non-unilineal systems where individuals can choose alignment with either parent’s group.

Amitaclan

• A hypothetical clan with patrilineal descent, where unmarried females reside with a paternal aunt.

Amitalocal Residence

• A theoretical norm where wives are taken to the home of their husband’s paternal aunt.

Amitate

• A structure where a sister holds superior status over her brother concerning the matrimonial fates of their offspring.

Avoidance Relationships

• Complete avoidance of speech and physical contact between certain relatives as a kinship norm.