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bride price: see marriage marriage, socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family . In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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According to Johnson, "the husband of a suicide loses assets--his wife, the brideprice he paid for her and the compensation he now must pay, and status" (Johnson 1981-332). At the peripheries of the USSR, in the Caucasuses and in Central Asia, Bolshevik social engineers set out to eradicate pederastic traditions as "survivals of primitive custom," that, being socially generated, could be eliminated (along with brideprice and polygamy) by paternalistic modernizers. Nasarian's interest in education makes her unfit to obtain a large brideprice, and she is sent to a cousin where she will care for his daughter and study for her A-level examinations. |
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