GANT notes- Ghost marriage in Asia PDF

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GANT notes- Ghost marriage in Asia...

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Ghost marriage in Asia  Woman who was killed on way home from school where she taught. Family offered the man who killed her chance to marry her- in order to put her soul at rest and to provide her with someone/money to take care of her in after life  Harvest bones to create marriages between two dead people Gebusi  Daguwa and Saliam  Saliam- widowed by death and expected to marry first husbands “brother”  Widows marry a male relative of their dead husband  So that the children stay in the family o she takes her children with her whenever she remarries  When a woman marries into a given clan, a “sister” of the husband should also marry a “brother” of the bride o giving one women for another o ideal of marital balance is loose o rule is present but if do not want to marry woman can buck the rule Transfers of Wealth Associated with Marriage  what does this transfer serve to do? o legitimates marriage o acknowledge a transfer of rights  Types of Transfers o Brideprice/brideworth (Gebusi)  customary gift from husband and his kin to the wife and her kin o Dowry  wife’s family provides gifts to husbands’ o Brideservice  transfer of labor- one spouse goes to work for the others family, usually male before wedding o EX: China brideprice  David Wei and Lucy Wang  Betrothal gift to her family 68,888 yuan (roughly $11)...