Bridewealth and DowryCUP Archive, 20.12.1973 - 169 Seiten Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmission of property at marriage, the usual interpretation suggesting that what distinguishes them is the direction in which the property travels - in the case of bridewealth, from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin, and in the case of dowry, vice versa. The authors of these 1973 papers criticise this interpretation as oversimplified, and analyse the two institutions in the contexts of Africa, with its preponderance of bridewealth, and South Asia, where dowry is the commoner institution. Dr Goody seeks to explain these geographical differences in terms of the basic structure of the societies and the rules governing the inheritance of property. Dr Tambiah considers these institutions in India, Ceylon and Burma as two kinds of property transfer, examining Indian juridical concepts, and relating these to the concepts and practices of Ceylon and Burma. |
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adoption affinal Africa agnatic alliance ambilocal residence bilateral Brahmans bride bride price bridegroom brideprice bridewealth bridewealth and dowry Burma Burmese caste Ceylon chidenam child co-parceners concept conjugal estate context cross-cousin cross-cousin marriage daughters Dayabhaga Derrett descent groups devolution Dhammathat Dharmashastras differentiation diverging devolution divorce dowry Dumont equal Eurasia exchange exogamy father female property gifts girl given Gonja Goody groom's heirs Hindu husband and wife hypergamy inheritance Jaffna Tamils jewellery joint family Kandyan Sinhalese kin group kinship land lineage Lobedu male Manu Manugye marriage payments marriage prestations marriage transactions married matrilateral matrilocal Medb Mitakshara mother's brother movables Nangudi Vellalar okka partition patrilineal polygyny property rights refer relation relationship residence rules share siblings sisters social societies son's sons South India spouse status stridhanam sulkam Tallensi Thesawalamai traditional transfer transmission unilineal descent Vellalar village virilocal wealth wedding widow wife's wives woman women Yalman
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Seite 68 - No father who knows (the law) must take even the smallest gratuity for his daughter; for a man who, through avarice, takes a gratuity, is a seller of his offspring.
Seite 69 - When (the bridegroom) receives a maiden, after having given as much wealth as he can afford, to the kinsmen and to the bride herself, according to his own will, that is called the Asura rite.
Seite 48 - What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.
Seite 72 - They make it not because the girl has any specific economic claims on them (she is not a member of the property-owning unit) but because their own status is at stake; a bride-giving family must, in order to assert itself against the family to which it has lost a woman, send her off in the grandest manner they can afford.
Seite 47 - Once when the royal bed was laid out for Ailill and Medb in Cruachan fort in Connacht, they had this talk on the pillows: 'It is true what they say, love,' Ailill said, 'it is well for the wife of a wealthy man.' 'True enough,' the woman said. 'What put that in your mind?' 'It struck me,' Ailill said, 'how much better off you are today than the day I married you.
Seite 85 - What was given before the nuptial fire, what was given on the bridal procession, what was given in token of love, and what was received from her brother, mother, or father, that is called the sixfold property of a woman.
Seite 31 - African lineage systems seem to fall and which would include the non-exogamous lineages of Islamic Western Asia. In this case the ongoing structure is defined by descent alone and marriage serves merely to create 'a complex scheme of individuation' within that structure. In contrast, there is the category of those societies in which unilineal descent is linked with a strongly defined rule of 'preferred marriage'.
Seite 75 - ... amongst whom no partition has ever taken place; we include only those persons who, by virtue of relationship, have the right to enjoy and hold the joint property, to restrain the acts of each other in respect of it, to burthen it with their debts, and at their pleasure to enforce its partition.
Seite 85 - WHAT was given before the nuptial fire, what ' was given on the bridal procession, what was given ' in token of love, and what was received from a ' brother, a mother, or a father, are considered as the ' six-fold separate property of a married woman : 195.
Seite 150 - Burma the custom is to tie a string across the road along which the bridegroom must pass to the house of his intended, when he comes in procession with all his friends, carrying the greater portion of the belongings with which he intends to set up house. The people who have put up the string, usually young men intent on a jollification of their own, stop the happy man and threaten to break the string with a curse on the married couple unless some money is given them.8 1 Crooke, Tribes and Castes...