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• bridewealth — bride wealth n. A payment in the form of money, property, or other valuable asset that is made by or on behalf of a prospective husband to the bride s family in certain cultures or societies. Also called bride price. * * * Payment made by the… …   Universalium

• bridewealth — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun ( s) : bride price * * * brideˈwealth or bride price noun In tribal societies, etc, a price paid (usu in kind) to a bride s family by the bridegroom • • • Main Entry: ↑bride …   Useful english dictionary

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• Structural anthropology — is based on Claude Levi Strauss s idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites …   Wikipedia

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• marriage — /mar ij/, n. 1. the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc. 2. the state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock: a happy… …   Universalium

• Plains Indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and …   Universalium