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bridewealth
Marriage payments from the husband and his kin to the bride's kin. Characteristically these payments balance a transfer of rights over the wife's sexuality, work services, residence, fertility, and so on.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Archaeology
- Category: Human evolution
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