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Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.
Bride price, also known as bride wealth, is an amount of money, property or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the right to marry their daughter. 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 ...
"I don't view the Bride Price as me being paid for… Geoffrey can't afford me," says Angela, a British-born Ghanaian describing a family tradition common across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The bride price in Singapore is a long-standing tradition that involves the groom presenting a gift or monetary amount to the bride’s family. While there is no fixed rule, it is customary for the dowry to be given in multiples of thousands, with the most common range being $1,888 to $8,888.
Learn about the differences and similarities between bride price and dowry, two types of payments made at the time of marriage in many cultures. Explore the factors behind marriage payments, the forms they can take, and the problems of dowry inflation in India.
A study of the effects of bride price, a common cultural practice in many African societies, on various outcomes for women. The authors find that higher bride price is associated with lower acceptance of domestic violence and higher happiness for women.
A study of the effects of bride price, a customary payment from groom to bride's family, on marriage outcomes in the DRC. The paper examines whether higher bride price is associated with earlier marriage, higher fertility, violence, divorce, quality, and happiness of women.
