Bride service

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Anthropology of kinship

Basic concepts

* Affinity
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* Incest taboo
* Endogamy
* Exogamy
* Moiety
* Monogamy
* Polygyny
* Polygamy
* Concubinage
* Polyandry
* Bride price
* Bride service
* Dowry
* Parallel / cross cousins
* Cousin marriage
* Levirate
* Sororate
* Ghost marriage
* Joking relationship
* Family
* Lineage
* Clan
* Cohabitation
* Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship

Descent

* Cognatic / Bilateral
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Linealities

* Ambilineality
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Household forms and residence

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Nuclear
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Related articles

* Alliance theory
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* Sex and Repression in Savage Society

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Relationships
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Types

|  Genetic or adoptive

* Kinship
* Family
* Parent
* father
* mother
* Grandparent
* Sibling
* Cousin

By marriage

* Spouse
* Husband
* Wife
* Open marriage

* Polygamy
* Polyandry
* Polygyny

*     * Group marriage
* Mixed-orientation

Partner(s)

* Significant other
* Boyfriend
* Girlfriend
* Cohabitation
* Same-sex
* Life partner
* Friendship (romantic / cross-sex / zone)

Sexual

* Casual
* Monogamy
* Non-monogamy
* Mutual monogamy
* Polyamory
* Polyfidelity

* Cicisbeo
* Concubinage
* Courtesan
* Mistress

Activities

* Bonding
* Courtship
* Dating
* Engagement
* Bachelor's Day
* Mating
* Meet market
* Romance
* Singles event
* Wedding

Endings

* Breakup
* Separation
* Annulment
* Divorce
* Widowhood

Emotions and feelings

* Affinity
* Attachment
* Intimacy
* Jealousy
* Limerence
* Love
* Platonic
* unconditional
* Passion
* Sexuality

Practices

* Bride price
* dower
* dowry
* service
* Hypergamy
* Infidelity
* Sexual activity
* Transgression
* Repression

Abuse

* Child
* Dating
* Domestic
* Elderly
* Narcissistic parent
* Power and control

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Bride service has traditionally been portrayed in the anthropological literature as the service rendered by the bridegroom to a bride's family as a bride price or part of one (see dowry). Bride service and bride wealth models frame anthropological discussions of kinship in many regions of the world.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Patterns
* 2 Example
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## Patterns

Patterns of matrilocal post-marital residence, as well as the practice of temporary or prolonged bride service, have been widely reported for indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.[2] Among these people, bride service is frequently performed in conjunction with an interval of uxorilocal residence. The length of uxorilocal residence and the duration of bride service are contingent upon negotiations between the concerned parties, the outcome of which has been characterized as an enduring commitment or permanent debt.[3][4] The power wielded by those who "give" wives over those who "take" them is also said to be a significant part of the political relationships in societies where bride service obligations are prevalent.[5][6]

Rather than seeing affinity in terms of a "compensation" model whereby individuals are exchanged as objects, Dean’s (1995) research on Amazon bride service among the Urarina[7] demonstrates how differentially situated subjects negotiate the politics of marriage.[8]

"Bride service" involves a comparatively minimal amount of wealth transfer between families, especially if it is performed by a solitary prospective groom rather than by his entire family or clan. Thus, bride-service "may in many cases function more as a trial marriage than as a [form of] payment."[9] Bride service has traditionally been practiced by Jivaro people in Peru–Ecuador and Timbira people in Brazil.[9]

## Example

An example of bride service occurs in the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 29:16-29, when Jacob labored for Laban for fourteen years to marry Rachel. The original deal was seven years, but when the wedding day arrived, Laban tricked Jacob by giving him Leah, his older daughter, instead of Rachel. Jacob then had to work for Laban another seven years before he was permitted to marry Rachel.

## References

1. ↑
* Langenbahn, Hans-Jürgen (1989). "Bridewealth and bride-service among the Ingessana (Rep. of Sudan)". Sociologus 39 (1): 36–53.
* Fricke, Tom; Thornton, Arland; Dahal, Dilli R. (1998). "Netting in Nepal: Social change, the life course, and brideservice in Sangila". Human Ecology 26 (2): 213–237. doi:10.1023/A:1018766806955. PMID 12293840.
* Hagen, Edward H. (1999). "The functions of postpartum depression". Evolution and Human Behavior 20 (5): 325–359. doi:10.1016/S1090-5138(99)00016-1.
* Gose, Peter (2000). "The state as a chosen woman: Brideservice and the feeding of tributaries in the Inka empire". American Anthropologist 102 (1): 84–97. doi:10.1525/aa.2000.102.1.84.
* Helliwell, Christine (2001). "Never stand alone": a study of Borneo sociality. Borneo Research Council. ISBN 978-1-9299-0002-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=-hRwAAAAMAAJ.
* Jamieson, Mark (June 2000). "It's Shame That Makes Men and Women Enemies: The Politics of Intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 (2): 311–325. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.00018.
2. ↑
* Arvelo-Jimenez, Nelly (1971). Political relations in a tribal society: a study of the Ye'cuana Indians of Venezuela (PhD). Latin American Program Dissertation Series. Vol. 31\. Cornell University. p. 104.
* Dumont, Jean-Paul (1978) (in en). The Headman and I: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Fieldworking Experience. University of Texas Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-2927-3007-6. https://archive.org/details/headmani00dumo_g89.
* Harner, Michael J. (1984) (in en). The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls. University of California Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0-5200-5065-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=APziu1G7TtoC.
* Hill, Johnathan; Moran, Emilio F. (1983). "Adaptive strategies of Wakuenai peoples to the oligotrophic rain forest of the Rio Negro basin". Adaptive responses of Native Amazonians. New York: Academic Press. pp. 124–25.
3. ↑ Rosengren, Dan (1987). In the eyes of the beholder: Leadership and the social construction of power and dominance among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon. Göteborg: Göteborgs etnografiska museum. p. 127.
4. ↑ Gow, Peter (December 1989). "The perverse child: Desire in a native Amazonian subsistence economy". Man 24 (4): 299–314. doi:10.2307/2804288.
5. ↑ Rivière, Peter G (1977). "Some problems in the comparative study of Carib societies". in Basso, Ellen B.. Carib-speaking Indians: culture, society, and language. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 41.
6. ↑ Mentore, George P. (September 1987). "Waiwai women: the basis of wealth and power". Man 22 (3): 511–27. doi:10.2307/2802503.
7. ↑ Dean, Bartholomew (2009). Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3378-5. http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DEANXS07.
8. ↑ Dean, Bartholomew (March 1995). "Forbidden fruit: infidelity, affinity and bride service among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (1): 87–110. doi:10.2307/3034230. https://www.academia.edu/24961221.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Rosenblatt, Paul C.; Unangst, David (1974). "Marriage Ceremonies: An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Study". Journal of Comparative Family Studies 5 (1): 41–56 [44–45]. ISSN 0047-2328. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41601188.

## Further reading

* Holmberg, Allan (1969). Nomads of the long bow: the Siriono of eastern Bolivia. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. p. 217. http://biblio.wdfiles.com/local--files/holmberg-1950-siriono/holmberg_1950_siriono.pdf.
* Kracke, Waud (1976). "Uxorilocality in patriliny: Kagwahiv filial separation". Ethos 4 (3): 295–310. doi:10.1525/eth.1976.4.3.02a00020.
* Maybury-Lewis, David (1971). "Some principles of social organization among the Central Gê.". Verhandlungen des XXXVIII Internationalen Amerikanistenkongresses. 3. p. 384.
* Maybury-Lewis, David (1967). Akwē-Shavante society. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 97f. https://books.google.com/books?id=CqpZugEACAAJ.
* Maybury-Lewis, David (1979). "Kinship, ideology, and culture". in Maybury-Lewis, David. Dialectical societies: the Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780674202856. OCLC 253693411.
* Murphy, Robert F. (1956). "Matrilocality and patrilineality in Mundurucu society". American Anthropologist 50 (3): 414–34. doi:10.1525/aa.1956.58.3.02a00030.
* Rivière, Peter G (1984). Individual and society in Guiana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 40f. ISBN 9780521269971. https://books.google.com/books?id=GXx2QgAACAAJ.
* Renshaw, John (2002). The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: identity and economy. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. p. 186ff. ISBN 9780803289918. https://books.google.com/books?id=PhykZ8_lWBAC.
* Siskind, Janet (1977). To Hunt in the Morning. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 79–81. OCLC 918281851.
* Turner, Terrence S (1979). "The Gê and Bororo societies as dialectical systems: a general model". in Maybury-Lewis, David. Dialectical societies: the Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 159–60. ISBN 9780674202856. OCLC 253693411.
* Whitten, Norman E.; Whitten, Dorothea S. (1984). "The structure of kinship and marriage among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador". in Kensinger, Kenneth M.. Marriage practices in Lowland South America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780252010149.

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