Does bride price harm women? Using ethnography to think about causality

Many institutions claim that bride price – where the groom's family transfers wealth to the bride's family at marriage – harms women. Owing to its long-term engagement with communities that practise bride price, ethnography is well placed to identify causal mechanisms at play in this issue...

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Main Authors: Eva Brandl, Heidi Colleran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2024-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X24000215/type/journal_article