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  • Are patrilocal arrangements more likely to be lousy for women than matrilocal ones?
  • My gut says - duh - of course patrilocal arrangements would be poorer for humans females.
  • The northern type of family is thus patrilineal and patrilocal and the married women in such a family live in the house of their father-in-law (sasural).
  • As a result of patrilocal, clan-exogamous marriage, every community traditionally contained a mix of women from different places, who usually arrived at their vukatini...
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