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Patrilocal Exogamy as a Monitoring Mechanism : How Inheritance and Residence Patterns Co-evolve [PDF]

open access: yes
Economists have modeled inheritance norms assuming the pattern of post-marital residence is exogenous. We model the co-evolution of these two institutions, examining how patrilineal inheritance and patrilocal exogamy reinforced each other in a ...
Brishti Guha
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Assimilation through marriage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries.
Epstein, Gil S.   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Ethnic intermarriage in Croatia with special emphasis on the Czech minority [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Pannonica, 2018
This article analyzes interethnic marriage in Croatia in terms of nationality throughout a forty-five year period (1970-2015) on the basis of vital statistics with special consideration of the Czech minority.
Mrđen Snježana, Bahnik Maja
doaj  

A genetic window into the human social past. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Orlando L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Poverty and public celebrations in rural India [PDF]

open access: yes
The author examines the paradox of very poor households, spending large sums on celebrations. Using qualitative, and quantitative data from South India, the author demonstrates that spending on weddings, and festivals can be explained by integrating an ...
Rao, Vijayendra
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100

open access: yes
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 408-414, February 2026.
James Chetwood
wiley   +1 more source

Sistem Perkawinan Exogami Suku Gayo

open access: yes, 2021
marriage or marriaege is an inner bond beetwen a man and a woman to create a family to understand each toher with the provisions of the applicable law. marriaege in indonesia is very diverse because of the many indigenous tribes, one of which is the gayo ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Marriage relationships among households in the mid 19th century Tama, Japan [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the formation of marriage relationships between two households in 19th century, Tama, Japan. Previous studies on marriage market or partner selection in the Japanese past tended to rely either on information from a single village in ...
Nobuyuki Hanaki, Satomi Kurosu
core   +3 more sources

Marital transfers and welfare of women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Throughout history, marriage has often been accompanied by substantial exchange of wealth. The practice of dowry-giving, in particular, has shown considerable diversity across cultures and over time.
Chan, W
core  

Changing times and local terms on the Rio Negro, Brazil: Amazonian ways of depolarizing epistemology, chronology and cultural Change

open access: yes, 2007
Partway along the vast waterways of Brazil's middle Rio Negro, upstream from urban Manaus and downstream from the ethnographically famous Northwest Amazon region, is the town of Castanheiro, whose inhabitants skillfully negotiate a space between the ...
Floyd, S.
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