CHFD 2100
26/02/2008 07:57:00
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February 26, 2008
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Waller’s Principal of Least Interest
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Marriage market
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We put ourselves out there “on the market” and are looking for the best partner or
the “best deal”
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Free choice marriage
: find the best person that you are interested in, not
necessarily your parents (our culture)
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Certain categories influence our choice: age (acceptable for a women to marry
a man a few years older, but if 20 or 30 years, people start talking)
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Arranged marriages
: arranged by the parents
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some cases the parents may do all of the choosing and the two people don’t
meet each other until the day of the marriage,
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some cases the parents give the children veto power
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looking not only at the individuals, but also their family-status, land,
money…
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Bride price
: money that the future groom pays to the bride’s family,
compensating her family for the investment they have put into their
daughter
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Dowry
: the sum of money or goods (ex: cattle) that the bride brings into the

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