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Matrilocal:

The definition of matrilocal refers to a custom or culture where the husband goes to live with the wife’s family.
When the custom of a tribe is for a man to marry and then go live with his mother and father-in-law, this is an example of a matrilocal tribe.
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Noted in “[Review of] Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community, By Erin S. Nelson“, Jessica Crawford, American Archaeology (summer • 2020, print only):

Like later historic societies, they would have been matrilineal and matrilocal, and thus made up of house groups of related women, their children, and husbands all living in close quarters and using the shared space of the courtyards.

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