bride-price
Wedding transfer sum
Bride-price is payment made by a groom or his family to the bride's family upon marriage.
The practice occurs in many cultures worldwide and may involve money, livestock, or other goods.
Unlike a dowry, which flows from the bride's family, bride-price compensates her family for the loss of her labor and fertility.
The term sometimes carries connotations of treating women as property: Critics argue the bride-price system commodifies women.
Marriage transfer payment
- dowerWidow's inheritance right
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
livestock · cattle · goats · negotiation · transfer · transaction · valuation · installment
Formal marriage agreement
- bridegroomNewly wed man
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- nuptialsVows and rings
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
engagement · matchmaking · polygyny · monogamy · spouse · union · vows · conjugal
Descent from progenitors
- patrilinealTraced through fathers
- matrilinealDescended through maternal line
- consanguinityRelatedness through shared ancestry
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
family · in-laws · alliance · endogamy · exogamy · progeny · descent · inheritance
bridewealth
Marriage transfer payment
- dowerWidow's inheritance right
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- compensationPayment for services rendered
settlement · livestock · cattle · goats · negotiation · transfer · transaction · valuation · installment · agreement
betrothal
Formal marriage agreement
- bridegroomNewly wed man
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- nuptialsVows and rings
ceremony · engagement · matchmaking · polygyny · monogamy · spouse · union · vows · conjugal · fiancée
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- patrilinealTraced through fathers
- matrilinealDescended through maternal line
- consanguinityRelatedness through shared ancestry
clan · family · in-laws · alliance · endogamy · exogamy · progeny · descent · inheritance · patrimony
ritual
Ceremonial set of actions
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- eldersSenior community members
blessing · customary · ceremony · cultural · practice · communal · sacred · symbolic · honor · respect
- Anglo-Saxon culturemead hall, thane, comitatus, Beowulf, shield wall