As Yang notes, part of Yuan's authority derived from the fact that her marriage was
uxorilocal. Still, her case shows how establishing a reputation of female exemplarity allowed women to make claims in arenas that did not normally allow for the vocal input of women, empowering them to fight for a cause that might otherwise be deemed self-serving.
Orang Rimba social relations draw from a broader Malay system of terms and concepts that are adapted to fit their small and fluid camp structures,
uxorilocal residence patterns, and egalitarian social relations that are based around a system of sharing.
Destacam-se na sua organizacao social, relacionada aos Je, as metades exogamicas e residencia
uxorilocal. Kimiye Tommasino em seus escritos sobre os Kaingang observa essa dualidade.
Presumably we should ask similar questions about assimilation also in relation to
uxorilocal marriage.
(41) El sistema de parentesco entre los cunas que habitan las islas de San Blas es bilineal,
uxorilocal y de corte exogamico estricto, vease.
More recently, the two villages have also become home to 'outsiders' who settle in the villages through marriage affiliation gaining
uxorilocal post-marital residence.
It seems probable, therefore, that Gou Wa's marriage will be
uxorilocal, with the husband joining her family, rather than vice versa (vivilocality).
Prior to the 1600s when Taiwan was populated predominantly by aboriginal tribes, marriage was primarily
uxorilocal: Property was handed down from mother to daughter and the son would "marry into" his wife's home; this was practiced in aboriginal communities of the coastal plain up through the twentieth century (Brown, 2004).
Before continuing, I should make it clear that while Schroter's fieldwork sites and my own are located some 10 to 15 kilometres apart, both are found in what I shall refer to--for want of a better designation--as 'greater Ngadhaland' where the vast majority routinely practise
uxorilocal postmarital residence.