Bride price
Videos
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 marri
A Papuan bride dowry basket piece from the early 20th century. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Polygyny
Videos
Polygyny is a form of polygamy entailing the marriage of a man to at least two or more women at the same time. The term polygyny is from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία; from Ancient Greek πολύ 'many' an
Bride price
…family is compensated for their loss of a worker. An evolutionary psychology explanation for dowry and bride price is that bride price is common in polygynous societies which have a relative scarcity of available women. In monogamous societies where women have little personal wealth, dowry is instead common…
Rua Kenana and four of his wives
Old wife and a new one (1935) by Azim Azimzade