Meanings
adjectiveambilocal (not comparable)
- not comparablebilocal
Village exogamy was preferred but residence was ambilocal so neither the household nor the village formed any kind of definable kin group.
1984, Herbert A. Applebaum, Work in non-market and transitional societies
Origin
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