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Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, [ 1] bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry is equivalent to dowry paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help ...
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom, or his family, to the bride, or her family, dowry is the wealth transferred from the ...
The Bride Price is a 1976 novel (first published in the UK by Allison & Busby and in the USA by George Braziller) by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It concerns, in part, the problems of women in post-colonial Nigeria .
Bride service has traditionally been portrayed in the anthropological literature as the service rendered by the bridegroom to a bride's family as a bride price or part of one (see dowry ). Bride service and bride wealth models frame anthropological discussions of kinship in many regions of the world. [1]
Ketubah. An illuminated ketubah. A ketubah ( / kɛtuːˈbɑː /; [1] Hebrew: כְּתוּבָּה) is a Jewish marriage contract. [2] It is considered an integral part of a traditional Jewish marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom, in relation to the bride. In modern practice, the ketubah has no agreed monetary ...
The bride price, which is given by the groom's family to the bride's family, varies from region to region. In Southern China , the bride price is much higher than in Northern China . After the betrothal gifts and bride price are negotiated and given, the families select a special date for the wedding.
Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, Shona and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi and Setswana, lovola in Xitsonga, and mamalo in Tshivenda), sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" [1] [2] [3] or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his family, undertakes to give to the head of a ...
The bride, Amanda DeWitt Leblanc, 26, wears a Romona Keveza off-the-shoulder trumpet gown. (It was one of three dresses she wore that night!) View this post on Instagram.