tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post4138932491781925888..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societiesDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-18553321703073322552010-11-17T19:49:07.775+02:002010-11-17T19:49:07.775+02:00"Proto-Indo-European to be virilocal and Prot..."Proto-Indo-European to be virilocal and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian uxorilocal. The instability of uxorilocality and the rare loss of virilocality once gained emerge as common features of both families."<br /><br />Too few data points? Pre-Indo-Europeans may very well have been oxorilocal for several thousand years and have ceased to be so only when replaced by Indo-Europeans.<br /><br />Modern societies are neither virilocal nor oxorilocal. People don't live in extended families any more. When couples form, they move out. Some of the few modern subcultures where there is significant extended family living (e.g. a significant subset of African-Americans) are oxorilocal, to the extent that they fit either category.<br /><br />On the other hand, Semitic cultures may have transitioned relatively recently, with matriline determinations of Jewishness contrasting with Aaronic patriline priesthoods and Islamic patrilocal extended families.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.com