Bride Service Is Practiced

question 17

Multiple Choice

Bride service is practiced:

• A) only in societies with high levels of material wealth.
• B) often in agricultural societies.
• C) to compensate the bride's family in a society where material goods are not accumulated.
• D) to compensate the groom's family for the cost of bearing a wife and children.
• E) to allow the groom's family to invest and create resources so that the newly married couple can start a family.

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