Residence

Associated Documents (26)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Blum, Richard H.A cross-cultural study
Ember, Carol R.Residential variation among hunter-gatherers
Ember, MelvinThe conditions favoring matrilocal versus patrilocal residence
Ember, Carol R.An evaluation of alternative theories of matrilocal versus patrilocal residence
Murdock, George PeterSocial structure
Broude, Gwen J.Rethinking the couvade: cross-cultural evidence
Eichler, MargritPower and sexual fear in primitive societies
Ember, Carol R.Myths about hunter-gatherers
Walker, Robert S.Living with kin in lowland horticultural societies
Ember, Carol R.Father absence and male aggression: a re-examination of the comparative evidence
Carter, Jr., HaroldMilitary organization as a response to residence and size of population: a cross-cultural study
Sanderson, Stephen K.Militarist, marxian, and non-marxian materialist theories of gender inequality: a cross-cultural...
Barry III, HerbertMultiple predictors of contributions by women to agriculture
Broude, Gwen J.Extramarital sex norms in cross-cultural perspective
Lee, Gary R.Family structure and the status of the elderly: a preliminary empirical study
Lee, Gary R.Status of the elderly: economic and familial antecedents
Ember, MelvinConditions that may favor avunculocal residence
Broude, Gwen J.Revisiting status-envy: does the theory hold up?
Flinn, Mark V.Resource distribution, social competition, and mating patterns in human societies
Schlegel, AliceMale dominance and female autonomy: domestic authority in matrilineal societies
Sweetser, Dorrian AppleAvoidance, social affiliation, and the incest taboo
Ember, MelvinAn archaeological indicator of matrilocal versus patrilocal residence
Ember, MelvinThe conditions that may favor avunculocal residence
Whiting, John W.M.Effects of climate on certain cultural practices
Driver, Harold E.Geographical-historical versus psycho-functional explanations of kin avoidances

Associated Hypotheses (43)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Blum, Richard H."When commonly polygamous co-wives dwell together rather than separately, then: [the culture disapproves of the use of cannabis]" (164)
Ember, Carol R."In the present hunter gatherer sample . . . when men's [subsistence] contribution is high . . . residence tends toward patrilocality; and when men's contribution is relatively low, residence tends toward matrilocality" (202)
Ember, Carol R.The more a society depends upon fishing, the more it should tend toward patrilocality. And the more a society depends upon gathering, the more it should tend toward matrilocality (202)
Ember, Carol R.Societies that have internal warfare or purely external warfare with men contributing a great deal to subsistence should tend toward patrilocality; those with purely external war and high female contribution to subsistence should tend toward matrilocality
Ember, Carol R.". . . in noncommercial societies, where married couples are usually obliged to live and work with kin, depopulation so reduces the feasibility of adhering to a single unilocal rule that couples are forced to live with whichever spouse's close relatives are still alive (213)
Ember, Carol R.". . . the more unpredictable the resources, the more residence should tend toward bilocality" (215)
Ember, Carol R.". . . among hunter-gatherers, those with smaller bands or communities would tend toward bilocality, while those with larger bands or communities should be able to maintain unilocality" (218)
Ember, Melvin"If a particular sex does most of the work in subsistence activities, the pattern of residence should tend to localize consanguineally related members of that sex" (571)
Ember, Melvin"As for how warfare might affect residence, we found that matrilocal societies have purely external warfare (warfare only with other societies) much more often than patrilocal societies" (593)
Ember, Carol R.". . . the relationship between migration and residence controlling on the presence versus absence of purely external warfare . . . becomes nonsignificant in both control conditions" (138)
Ember, Carol R.". . . control[ling] on the presence versus absence of migration, the relationship between type of warfare and residence does not disappear" (139)
Ember, Carol R.". . . among migrating . . . societies, only those that are relatively small should be matrilocal" (147)
Murdock, George Peter"In the presence of matrilocal or avunculocal residence, terms for primary relatives tend to be extended, within the same generation, to their collateral relatives through females" (149)
Murdock, George Peter"Matrilocal and avunculocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (149)
Murdock, George Peter"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (150)
Broude, Gwen J.Controlling for status envy, mother-infant sleeping arrangements and frequent matrilocality, along with father absence, will be correlated with the couvade (905).
Eichler, Margrit"In those cultures in which residence is patrilocal, virilocal, or avunculocal male genital mutilation will be more frequent than in cultures in which residence is matrilocal or uxorilocal" (922).
Eichler, Margrit"In those cultures in which residence is patrilocal the incidence of male genital mutilation will be more frequent than in those cultures in which residence is matrilocal" (922).
Ember, Carol R.Hunter-gatherers are typically bilocal (440).
Walker, Robert S.Horticultural societies in the Amazonian tropical forest will be more patrilocal than hunter-gatherers (97-98).
Walker, Robert S.Horticulturalists of the Amazonian tropical forest will be more uxorilocal than hunter-gatherers (98).
Ember, Carol R.In a subsample excluding societies that are matrilocal and have less than occasional warfare, father's sleeping distance will be a better predictor of homicide and assault (305).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Societies with uxorilocal/matrilocal residence are more likely to have a high frequency of external warfare than societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (275).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Societies with uxorilocal/matrilocal residence are more likely to have a higher degree of external warfare than societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (275).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Societies with uxorilocal/matrilocal residence are more likely to have a professional military organization than societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (275).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Among small societies, those with uxorilocal/matrilocal residence are more likely to have a professional military organization than are societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (276).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Among societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence, large societies are more likely to have a professional military organization than are small societies" (276).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Societies with uxorilocal residence and/or large societies are more likely to have a professional military organization than are small societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (278).
Sanderson, Stephen K.Social stratification, class stratification, subsistence type, intensity of cultivation, use of plow, patrilineality, and patrilocality/virilocality will be positively associated with gender inequality, and female contribution to agriculture will be negatively associated with gender inequality (1427, 1438).
Barry III, Herbert"Contribution by women to agriculture is associated with several cultural customs rather than with a single dominant variable" (293).
Broude, Gwen J.In societies where females are more dominant, there will be less restrictive extramarital sex norms (190).
Lee, Gary R.The status of the elderly will be positively associated with unilocal residence, with a patrilocal system predicting high elderly male status and a matrilocal system predicting high elderly female status (432).
Lee, Gary R.Higher status of the elderly will be associated with agricultural rather than exploitative economies, extended rather than nuclear family organization, inheritance of real property, and patrilocal rather than other residence patterns (270).
Ember, Melvin"Using polygyny as an indicator of relatively high male mortality . . . avunculocal societies are significantly more likely to practice polygyny than matrilocal societies" (206)
Broude, Gwen J.Matrilocal/ambilocal residence will be positively associated with higher female status (162).
Flinn, Mark V.With marriage of the father's sister's daughter, father-to-son nepotism will also entail mother's brother (husband's father) to sister's daughter (son's wife) nepotism (240).
Schlegel, Alice"Residence patterns show a high degree of association with domestic authority patterns. . . . Virilocality is significantly associated with Husband Dominant, and absence of virilocality is . . . associated with both Brother Dominant and Neither Dominant" (82)
Driver, Harold E.Kin avoidance behavior will be associated with culture area, language family, descent, residence, and kinship terminology.
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple"Residence proved to be unrelated to avoidance [of parents-in-law] by either husband or wife" (313)
Ember, MelvinSince in societies with sororal polygyny co-wives live together in the same house, it should also be true that sisters find it easier to live together when they are married to different men in matrilocal societies. I expected houses in matrilocal societies to have a larger living floor area than houses in patrilocal societies (177)
Ember, MelvinDouble descent societies with avunculocality will have polygyny significantly more than double descent societies that are patrilocal (254).
Whiting, John W.M."If a society has a high frequency of polygyny . . . then it is more likely to have patrilocal residence than a society with a lower frequency of polygyny" (516)

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