1. Bride price
Bride price, also known as bridewealth or bride token, is an amount of money or property or wealth
paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the
groom. (Compare dowry, which is paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new
household, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of
marriage.) The agreed bride price may or may not be intended to reflect the perceived value of the girl
or young woman.
The same culture may simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price. Many cultures practiced
bride price prior to existing records.
In anthropological literature, bride price has often been explained in market terms, as payment made in
exchange for the bride's family's loss of her labor and fertility within her kin group.[citation needed]
The bride price may be seen as related to present-day customs of maintenance for the wife in the event
of the breakup of marriage, and family maintenance in the event of the husband not providing
adequately for the wife in his will. Another function performed by the amount was to provide a
disincentive for the husband to divorce his wife: he would need to have a certain amount to be able to
pay to the wife. [?][citation needed]
An evolutionary psychology explanation for dowry and bride price is that bride price is common in
polygynous societies which have a relative scarcity of available women. In monogamous societies
where women have little personal wealth dowry is instead common since there is a relative scarcity of
wealthy men who can choose from many potential women when marrying
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![Bride price
Bride price, also known as bridewealth or bride token, is an amount of money or property or wealth
paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the
groom. (Compare dowry, which is paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new
household, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of
marriage.) The agreed bride price may or may not be intended to reflect the perceived value of the girl
or young woman.
The same culture may simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price. Many cultures practiced
bride price prior to existing records.
In anthropological literature, bride price has often been explained in market terms, as payment made in
exchange for the bride's family's loss of her labor and fertility within her kin group.[citation needed]
The bride price may be seen as related to present-day customs of maintenance for the wife in the event
of the breakup of marriage, and family maintenance in the event of the husband not providing
adequately for the wife in his will. Another function performed by the amount was to provide a
disincentive for the husband to divorce his wife: he would need to have a certain amount to be able to
pay to the wife. [?][citation needed]
An evolutionary psychology explanation for dowry and bride price is that bride price is common in
polygynous societies which have a relative scarcity of available women. In monogamous societies
where women have little personal wealth dowry is instead common since there is a relative scarcity of
wealthy men who can choose from many potential women when marrying
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Money spells http://www.kingspells.co.za/money-spells.html
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