BridepriceBrideprice SystemsSystems

Simple polity

Simple Bifurcate Bride agriculture Merging Kin Price Terms

Female Premarital sex farming permitted

Economy Polity Transmission of Kinship Division of labor Property Terminology DowryDowry SystemsSystems

Complex In-marriage polity

Advanced Dowry Sibling agriculture kin terms

Male Prohibited farming premarital sex

Economy Polity Transmission of Marriage Kinship Division of labor Property Terminology TheThe ValueValue ofof VirginityVirginity

Economic None Bride Bride Gift Dowry Total Transaction Price Service Exchange & indirect dowry Virginity 31669 1852 valued Virginity 26 27 10 3 7 73 Virginity not valued N=125; Chi-square = 27.13; p<0.0001

Alice Schlegel, American Ethnologist, 18: 719-734 (1991) FemaleFemale ContributionsContributions toto PrimaryPrimary FoodFood ProductionProduction HHHH andand DD:DD: FurtherFurther ContrastsContrasts Dowry Heir Production not relevant because of important because of lineal lateral inheritance inheritance and random demographic events Adoption by kin for care of parentless sometimes by kin for heir children production Non-reproductive rare spinsters and bachelors adults Alternative none concubines & morganatic marriage forms unions Marriage polygyny monogamy

Gaining high status accumulation of human Accumulation of capital resources resources

Divorce common rare

Religious orders for absent present, celibates in non-reproductive religious order are celibates relatively common MorganaticMorganatic MarriageMarriage

Etymology: New matrimonium ad morganaticam, literally, marriage with morning gift Date: circa 1741 of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank