Meanings
nouncoresidence (countable and uncountable, plural coresidences)
plural coresidences
- countableuncountableanthropologyLiving together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
The question of coresidence is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).
1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon, Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 42–3
Origin
Translations
French corésidence
- corésidenceliving together
Japanese 同居
- 同居 (dōkyo)living together
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