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  • Indeed, exogamy and virilocal residence norms made tattooing arguably even more important for a woman after marriage, when peer pressure from fellow girls she had known...
  • This last label was consistent with the habit, in casual conversation, of calling a married woman (who formally keeps her own xivongo) by her husband's family name, a gesture...
  • The hypothesized transition from "Early" to "Late Iron Age" circa A.D. 1000 is also said to have included a general movement of settlements from river valleys to hilltops and...
  • Since according to the norms of virilocal marriage, no married adult woman lives in the muti of her father's family (and indeed might live a long distance from her natal...
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