bride price
bridewealth
bride token

The bride price is paid a week before the marriage.

If she is not, then at least I gain another bride price.

The development of the bride price no doubt was in the same direction.

The bride price and other things are usually done afterwards.

A bride price is still paid in parts of Turkey.

He is not cattle to be offered as part of a bride price.

In bride price, salt is included as one of the offerings.

The reason: the family no longer has to feed the girl, and can claim a bride price.

The bride price is often subject to the groom's family economic status.

Whatever the processes in any district, the marriage contract is based on bride price.

Bride Price is what a man pays for the privilege of living with a woman.

Property made over to the bride's family at the time of the wedding is a bride price.

Through bride price, he hoped to get some return on the burden of her existence.

The bride price is payed both in cash and kind.

The practice of bride price in Kenya declined rapidly during the 20th century.

When the father of the boy accepted the bride price, the marriage is declared settle.

The same culture may simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price.

Since the labour of women (and children) was no longer as important, Kenyan men became less likely to pay a bride price.

Your enslavement was but a small part of the bride price."

Half the warriors in Zunga would take such a woman with no bride price at all.

It was more than two centuries since any father on the island had been able to secure the ancient bride price.

The law required the payment of a bride price.

In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price.

Another function of the dowry may be as compensation for bride price.

In some cultures, dowries and bride prices continue to be required today.

A man without cows to pay the bridewealth could go to the island and pick up a girl.

During this time, the husband would hunt for his wife's family (bridewealth).

The bridewealth received for a sister often enables her brother to marry.

However, all versions state that bridewealth was not given.

There is no bridewealth and very little bride service.

Brideprice (bridewealth) payments are very seldom made over all at once.

If she remarries, her kin could again secure bridewealth and brideservice.

If a husband had given bridewealth for his wife who was pregnant before he married her, he must still accept paternity of the child.

If she is divorced her side withholds a portion of the bridewealth for every child born, even if these died.

Cattle for bridewealth, however, were considered vital and gave men even more control, even though the missionaries assumed the position of women was not bad.

A brother hopes to make claims on the loyalty and labor of a sister's sons and bridewealth from her daughters.

Marriage traditionally required bridewealth, often in iron implements.

From this point of view the appropriate label for the payment is Evans-Pritchard's term: "bridewealth".

Only after a separate condition called rushd, or intellectual maturity to handle one's own property, is reached can a girl receive her bridewealth.

The women embellished their headdresses with gold and silver coins from their bridewealth money.

If there were five or six children born, no bridewealth is returned and the brideservice is not returned.

Arrangements would be made to settle the bridewealth and the marriage would be formalized.

On 22 September 1150 Ramiro gave these two the bridewealth (arras) which he had neglected to give their mother before her death.

Before Christianity, polygyny was widely practiced and a practice called bridewealth took place amongst the families of men and women.

According to Leach, in Kachin reality instabilities arose primarily from competition for bridewealth.

Men sought to get the maximum profit in forms of either bridewealth or political advantage out of the marriage of their daughters.

In the case of marriages done through the game of abduction, the bridewealth offered is a gesticulation to appease the woman's parents.

The Transvaal went to the extent of outlawing any polygamous marriage or a marriage which included bridewealth.

Some rituals are still subjects of debate among the Urapmin as to whether they should still be practiced, in particular pig sacrifice and bridewealth exchange.

These leaders organize people into villages, help people pay bridewealth payments, speak at court cases, and organize work groups to carry out large-scale projects.