Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... dowry to find for Efthimia . There is one way out of giving her a dowry which will not cause loss of face for Nikolaos and Kalliope . Parents can and indeed ought to refuse a dowry if their daughter elopes . If parents reject a suitor ...
... dowry to find for Efthimia . There is one way out of giving her a dowry which will not cause loss of face for Nikolaos and Kalliope . Parents can and indeed ought to refuse a dowry if their daughter elopes . If parents reject a suitor ...
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... dowry is lacking a crucial component . This lack is felt even in cases where individual rights are most pronounced . WOMEN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DOWRY IN CEYLON Superficially Sinhalese law would seem to offer an ideal case in support of ...
... dowry is lacking a crucial component . This lack is felt even in cases where individual rights are most pronounced . WOMEN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DOWRY IN CEYLON Superficially Sinhalese law would seem to offer an ideal case in support of ...
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... dowry system is associated with egalitarian and immobile villages . Alternatively , dowry - with all that it implies in control over women and solidarity among men as a mark of status — appears to be a function of diversified ...
... dowry system is associated with egalitarian and immobile villages . Alternatively , dowry - with all that it implies in control over women and solidarity among men as a mark of status — appears to be a function of diversified ...
Contents
Changing Icelandic Kinship | 1 |
Property and Ritual | 21 |
Measuring Marriage Preference | 35 |
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