Bride service is a marital arrangement, traditionally described in the anthropological literature, in which a bridegroom renders service to his bride's family as a bride price or as part of one. Bride service and bride-wealth models frame anthropological discussions of kinship across many regions of the world.
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Bride service and the dowry system are alternative marriage-payment institutions in anthropological kinship theory, moving compensation in opposite directions between the families of the bride and groom.
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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.
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