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bride price
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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
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Pigs also became the currency of bride wealth exchanges and religious rituals while big-men became the brokers of social change.
 
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