Ethnology, March 22nd, 1997
The cycle of household development in Santa Maria Acxotle del Monte, a Nahuatl-Spanish community in Tlaxcala, Mexico, reflects a pattern common throughout Mesoamerica. The Mesoamerican developmental cycle starts with virilocal residence rules and ends with male ultimogeniture during the replacement phase. Older sons reside virilocally at first after they marry and then establish their own households near the parental residence. The youngest son continues to live in the parental home after marriage and inherits it after the father dies, thus forming a stem family.
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