The rules governing where a married couple settles relative to each spouse family, a standard axis of kinship classification alongside descent: patrilocal residence with the husband kin, matrilocal residence with the wife kin, avunculocal residence with the husband mother brother, and neolocal residence forming an independent household. Belongs here: a named residence rule. Does not belong here: the lineage-tracing rule itself, grouped under Descent Systems, even where a residence pattern and a descent rule commonly pair in the same society.
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In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
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