Residential Variation among Hunter-Gatherers

1 August 1975

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Behavior Science Research

Vol. 10 (3) , 199-227
https://doi.org/10.1177/106939717501000302

Abstract

This paper addresses itself to predicting variation in residence in a world wide sample of hunter-gatherers. The findings indicate that some subsist ence, demographic, and social environmental factors, suggested by previous theory and research, predict the tendency toward patrilocality versus matrilocality and the tendency toward unilocality versus bilocality. Im plications for the reconstruction of hunter-gatherer life in the Paleolithic are briefly discussed.

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