Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
| Autor: | Fadwa El Guindi, Barbara C. Aswad, Khalil Nakhleh, Gideon M. Kressel, Basil Sansom, Roger Joseph, Qais N. Al-Nouri, Emre Kongar, William Tulio Divale, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Julian Pitt-Rivers |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 18:441-458 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201926 |
| Popis: | A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currencies such as money, prestige, services, and patronage, stress the importance of the cultural component. All are solutions to the same structural problem. The solution characteristic of Arab Muslim society stems from the symbolic linking of the ruling hierarchy with the roles of the sexes; the male roles are the preserve of the elite, while the symbol of subjection to authority means effemination. Hypergamy implies that daughters, as representatives of lower strata, move upward. Elite groups are distinguished by the ability to do away with any payments, viz., to pro... |
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