Considerable influence was exercised by affinal relatives.
Patrifocal, adult males might have been buried here rather than in the residential area with affinal females and young children.
It usually refers to consanguineal kin (as a class), but it may be extended to include affinal and ritual kin, as well as all village members.
Let me offer an example that illustrates a household-internal cause, and thereby illuminates some of the tensions that arise with virilocality and the acquisition of affinal kin.
Simultaneously, affinal relations are articulated.
Particularly for those unfortunate women whose natal and affinal homes were on opposite sides of the boundary, the rare visits home to their parents became a difficult and dangerous proposition.
Since headship often passed to the son-in-law on the death of his spouse's father, then all the previous consanguineal kin became affinal.
They lacked the entire affinal and filial support network.
