Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa.

ABSTRACT: Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global demographic shifts such as the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic and more recently the urbanization and globalization of the twentieth century have been major catalysts for cultural change. Here, we test whether cultural traits such as patri/matrilocality and postmarital migration persist in the face of social upheaval and gene flow during the past 150 years in postcolonial South Africa. The recent history of South Africa has seen major demographic shifts that resulted in the displacement and forced sedentism of indigenous Khoekhoe and San populations. During the expansion of the colonial frontier, the Khoe-San admixed with

SUBMITTER: Reynolds AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10353969 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature