A rule of postmarital residence by which the newly married couple dwells in the household of the husband's mother's brother.
Comment:Avunculocality is logically related to matrilineal lineages. Although informants in matrilineal societies often claim it is a preferred residential arrangement, I have been able to find no society in which it is actually practiced with anything like universality.
Contrast: virilocality, uxorilocality.
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