Ambilocal residence

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Ambilocal residence (or ambilocality), also called bilocal residence (bilocality) is the societal postmarital residence‎ in which couples, upon marriage, live with or near either the husband's parents or the wife's parents.^[1]

[edit] Bibliography

• Fox, Robin (1967). Kinship and Marriage: An anthropological perspective.. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-27823-6. 
• Korotayev, Andrey. 2001. An Apologia of George Peter Murdock. Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration. World Cultures 12(2): 179-203.

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