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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bride price see marriage .
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UGANDA: THE FACTS ABOUT THE TRADITION OF BRIDE PRICE.(Brief Article)
; ...cultural practices of the woman of which bride price is the gist of the matter. There is...of the woman do not wish to receive bride price they should make a clear declaration...benefit of those who might not know what bride price really means, I will briefly talk of...
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Guinea pigs. (currency in Papua New Guinea) (Business)
; ...marriage: the bride's clan must be paid a bride price by the groom's clan. A bride price is still paid by almost every groom throughout...They are quite acceptable as payment for the bride price. Random sampling suggests that the bride...
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Bride price leads to abuse of women.(Brief article)
; The practice of paying bride price is one of the factors contributing...Lucy Koloa, told IRIN: Paying bride price is sometimes regarded as buying...who are able to pay huge sums in bride price without even testing for HIV, the...
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Agony Of Alliances A socially accepted custom forces women in rural Rajasthan into a string of marriages approved by their families or even husbands for the "bride price" they get from the new groom
; ...in return for money. This money, the "bride price", they then utilise to "buy" themselves...and the police who get a cut of the bride price. With breaking and fixing of marriages...and fix new ones to get a cut of the bride price. It is also common for girls' families...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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A foreign divorce; Hmong, Latino and Somali immigrants want to honor their heritage while obeying the laws of their new home in Minnesota. As some face the end of their marriages, creative lawyers are helping them maintain their cultural balance.(VARIETY)
; ...elders and full of ritual - including a bride price paid by the groom's family to hers...added complications of such things as a bride price, an unofficial marriage in a Thai refugee...approve, or not. They would negotiate the bride price, usually paid in silver. And they would...
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Africa fights AIDS with girl power; A bill is currently in Uganda's parliament that would strengthen women's rights.(WORLD)
; ...of customs - from polygamy to marital rape to bride price. Bride price is the widely practiced custom of men paying the...spread AIDS. Uganda's proposed law would make bride price optional, nontransferable, and nonrefundable...
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A Stranger in Her Own Land
; THE BRIDE PRICE By Grete Weil Translated from the German...twin birthright as German and Jew. The Bride Price consists of alternating first-person...Saul, David and Solomon. One pays a bride price in blood for that "unity": Such seems...
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Representing the African woman: subjectivity and self in The Joys of Motherhood.
; ...the African practices of polygamy and bride price degrade women to the status of goods...bring to their fathers through their bride price; that girls have no choice in whom they...bring into his coffers in the form of bride price. (22) Ketu H. Katrak declares that the...
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South Africans defend the price of tying the knot.
; ...2,700 as the negotiated lobola, or bride price. It means the two are already married...in sub-Saharan Africa, the payment of bride price remains a widespread practice, from...had been married once before and the bride price not returned, he tried to avoid paying...
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African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Ixion , in Greek mythology, king of the Lapithes. Ixion murdered his father-in-law to avoid paying a price for his bride. When no one on earth would purify him, Zeus took Ixion to Olympus and purified him. While there Ixion attempted to seduce Hera...
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Uathach
...chulainn when he comes to Scáthach for training. Scáthach later promises her to him without requiring the bride-price. Forgetful of his strength, Cúchulainn accidentally breaks her finger while she is serving him. Her scream brings...
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Emecheta, (Florence Onye) Buchi
...articles written for the New Statesman . Both were published in one volume as Adah's Story (1983). Succeeding novels, The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979), dealt with the position of women in Nigerian society...
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