ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dowry, Bride Service
27 Jun 2016
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10/28/15: wealth transfers at marriage, bridewealth: payment from groom"s family to the brides" family. a. i. This is not a purchase of the wife. a. ii. Payment that is a symbolic marker of a new manner of relationships. a. iv. Relationship between the families of husband and the brand. a. v. Compensation to the family bc children belong to husbands lineage. a. vi. Payments are so large that they can be payed off in installments over the course of the life: dowry: payment from the bride"s family to the groom"s family. b. i. Bulk of expenses for wedding come from the bride"s family. b. iii. Amount to million to tens of millions of dollars b. iv. Daughters don"t inherit. b. v. form of early inheritance for daughters in an indirect way: bride service: transfer of labor c. i. Live with the wife"s people and the husband works for her people for a set period of time. c. ii.
