Residence And Descent

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Divale, William TulioThe causes of matrilocal residence: a cross-ethnohistorical survey
Hobhouse, L. T.The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an essay in correlation

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Divale, William Tulio". . . recent migrations should tend to be uxorilocal-patrilocal or unorilocal-bilateral while older migrants should be avunculocal or patrilocal" (292-293)
Hobhouse, L. T."Broadly, if we omit the intermixed cases, we see that the maternal principle [residence and descent] predominates among the hunting peoples, the paternal in the pastoral stage, while among agricultural peoples the two are neatly balanced" (153)

Associated OCMs

  1. residence
  2. rule of descent