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Objective
This study examines trends over several decades in bridewealth marriage and analyzes the association of bridewealth with women's experiences in marriage in a rural sub‐Saharan setting.
Background
Bridewealth—payments from the groom's to the bride's family as part of the marriage process—has long been a central element of kinship and marriage systems in patrilineal sub‐Saharan Africa. This...
Divorce rates globally are on the rise, and in rural Northeast Brazil increasing rates of marital dissolution index transformations in gender roles, marriage and kinship structures. Socioeconomic change—specifically a transition to an economy based in ecotourism—impacts gender roles and subsequent views on marriage and marriage dissolution. In a context of extreme social inequality and structural...
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