bride-wealth
Groom's family pays
Bride-wealth is property or money given by a groom or his family to the bride's family at marriage.
The practice occurs in many African, Asian, and Pacific cultures, establishing bonds between families and compensating for the loss of a daughter's labor and fertility.
Distinguished from dowry, which flows in the opposite direction.
Also called bride-price.
Marital property transfer
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- transferMove between locations
compensation · exchange · settlement · contract · agreement · valuation · installment · goods
Importance or price
- reciprocityMutual exchange of actions
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- debtMoney owed another
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
inheritance · status · prestige · security · insurance · compensation · labor · productivity
Habitual group practice
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
Malinowski · fieldwork · polygyny · exogamy · endogamy · patriarchy · institution · ceremony
dowry
Marital property transfer
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
transfer · compensation · exchange · settlement · contract · agreement · valuation · installment · goods · livestock
value
Importance or price
- reciprocityMutual exchange of actions
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- debtMoney owed another
investment · inheritance · status · prestige · security · insurance · compensation · labor · productivity · resources
custom
Habitual group practice
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
ethnography · Malinowski · fieldwork · polygyny · exogamy · endogamy · patriarchy · institution · ceremony · rite
marriage
Formal union between partners
clan · in-laws · patrilineage · matrilineage · household · union · bond · relatives · kin · ancestry
Zulu
Bantu language of Natal
bride-wealthdowry
Marital property transfer
dower · trousseau · dos · bride price
bride-wealthalimony
Court-ordered post-divorce payments
divorce settlement · palimony · spousal support · maintenance · jointure
bride-wealthlove match
Marriage for passion, not practicality
bride, wealth, brides, bridal, wealthy, wealthier, wealthiest