complicate the Venetian patriciate’s lineage orientation. The largest element of the property that accompanied women to their marriages was the dowry. It is not the place here to synthesize the vast scholarship on dowries in Renaissance Italy, but it is
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Securing Intergenerational Kin Relationships and a House of One's Own
Muslims' Ways of Ageing Well in Kerala, India
Willemijn de Jong
The author explores trajectories of creating well-being with regard to old age in a poor Muslim community in Kerala, India. Theoretically, she draws on the nonstate-led concept of 'inclusive social security' and links it with the anthropology of the house. In doing so she takes approaches of 'making' kinship, gender, age as well as citizenship into account. Care and respect for the elderly result from strong but gendered intergenerational kin relationships in and around the house, which they establish for a large part themselves. Governmental and civil provisions play an enabling or supplementary role. Elderly women, particularly widows, benefit from property relationships that are less gendered. Surprisingly, there is a remarkable tendency of creating house ownership, and thus of bargaining power, for women in this community. It is suggested that this is effected by a combination of Muslim inheritance rules, recent dowry-giving practices and Kerala's matrilineal history.
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, but also the consequences of the application of the law through judicial proceedings in which widows demanded that their rights be respected. The Inadequacy of the Dowry System Several factors influenced the socioeconomic situation of widows, but most
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Anna Saunders and Peter De Ville
his rubbery wattle, flinch at the sound of his scratching spurs. No need to feel alone now. She will lie in the satin sheets of her family’s dowry as he perches on the bed head, clucking and crowing to stake his claim. © Anna Saunders Permitted
Native Marriage “Soviet” and “Russian” Style
The Political Economy of Desire and Competing Matrimonial Emotions
Vera Skvirskaja
dowry and the size and timing of the bride-price. The social status of a household in terms of wealth and the educational and occupational achievements of its members play a significant role in choosing marriage partners. However, the main goal in a
‘Money on the Street’ as a Hoard
How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked
Martin Fotta
“meat was never lacking” in his household. When a man marries, he starts living in a house or tent that is furnished by the bride’s family and becomes responsible for providing for his household. He lends ‘his’ and ‘his wife’s’ money—the dowry—to other
Women and Family Law in Byzantium
Some Notes
Niki Megalommati
age of puberty, that is male from 15 and female from 13, with their acceptance and the consent of parents.” 51 The alternative choices of future spouses were explicitly mentioned: if the couple marries using the written form, a dowry contract must be
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Girlhood Studies and Disability in India
Epistemological Shifts
Nirmala Erevelles
), dharma (pre-ordained duty) and karma (action) combine to place disabled people in a constant quest for cure, redemption, abuse, and neglect. Within this religious-cultural milieu daughters are constructed as parai (Other) needing a dowry in order to
Daniel M. Knight
a dowry (see Couroucli 1994 ; Sant Cassia and Bada 1992 ). National sentiment is often expressed in terms of social relations: family, blood, kinship, ancestry, fatherland, motherland, and patriline are the social categories that conglomerate in
