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e. 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 ...
The Bride Price. 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. The author dedicated this novel to her mother, Alice Ogbanje Emecheta.
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 ...
Ala kachuu. A woman (first from right) and four men on horses preparing to "kidnap" her. Kyrgyz steppe, between 1871 and 1872. Ala kachuu ( Kyrgyz: ала качуу) is a form of bride kidnapping practiced in Kyrgyzstan. [ 1] The term can apply to a variety of actions, ranging from a consensual elopement to a non-consensual kidnapping, [ 2 ...
The traditional customs of dowry and bride price contribute to the practice of forced marriage. [94] [95] [96] A dowry is the property or money that a wife (or wife's family) brings to her husband upon marriage. [97] A bride price is an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom (or his family) to the parents of the bride upon ...
The bride-traders sell women as brides or as prostitutes depending on their physical appearance. A common trick employed by bride-brokers in acquiring brides for sale is the offer of a job such as in factories and instead kidnapping them. Bride-traders can sell a young woman for the price of $250 to $800USD. US$50 to US$100 of the original ...
A bride price is the amount paid by the groom to the parents of a bride for them to consent to him marrying their daughter. In some countries, the younger the bride, the higher the bride price. [88] [89] This practice can create an economic incentive where girls are sought and married early by her family to the highest bidder. Child marriages ...
But the pair work closer than ever in Father of the Bride, the latest movie adaptation of Edward Streeter’s 1949 novel, previously adapted into 1950 comedy starring Spencer Tracy and, later, its ...