| 单词 | marriage by purchase |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarriage by purchase c. In phrases denoting the means or custom by which a spouse is acquired, as marriage by capture, marriage by exchange, marriage by purchase. ΚΠ 1865 J. McClennan Primitive Marriage iii. 52 Among this class of tribes, marriage by capture could have had no place. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau ii. 124 The primitive usages of..marriages by capture, purchase, and the rest. 1924 W. H. Rivers Social Organisation iii. 46 Marriage by exchange..may co-exist with marriage by purchase, and..in some cases, it is only a means of avoiding..the marriage payments. 1951 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (1952) 81 i. 20/1 The system of exogamous moieties provides a system of generalisation of marriage by exchange, since every marriage is one incident in the continual process by which the men of one moiety get their wives from the other. 1987 Current Anthropol. 28 252 He sees..an explanation for marriage by capture. 1991 Austral. Jrnl. Chinese Affairs 25 148 During the Maoist era, the practice of providing bride-price payments..was denounced as ‘marriage by purchase’. 2010 T. M. Lemos Marriage Gifts Anc. Palestine Introd. 13 The word ‘bride-price’, based as it is on such problematic notions as marriage by purchase, is outdated. < as lemmas |
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