scholarly journals Marriage stability in a pastoralist society

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1567-1574
Author(s):  
Juan Du ◽  
Ruth Mace
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Marriage Duration ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Marriage Stability ◽  
The Family ◽  
Trial Marriage ◽  
Socioeconomic Data ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract We examined how individual investment was associated with the duration of marriage partnerships in a pastoralist society of Amdo Tibetans in China. We collected demographic and socioeconomic data from 420 women and 369 men over five villages to assess which factors predicted partnership length. We found that the payment of dowry and bridewealth from both sides of the family predicted marriage stability. The production of offspring, regardless of their survivorship, also had a positive effect on marriage duration, as did trial marriage, a time period before formal marriage. Finally, we found that if both bride and groom invest resources initially into a partnership—whether wealth or labor—their subsequent partnership is stronger than couples who do not make such investments. This paper adds to our understanding of complex social institutions like marriage from a behavioral ecological perspective.

Trial Marriage in the Andes

Ethnology ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Price
Keyword(s):  
The Andes ◽  
Trial Marriage

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-172
Author(s):  
Lisa Mendelman
Keyword(s):  
Women Artists ◽  
First Century ◽  
Free Love ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Companionate Marriage ◽  
Trial Marriage

The Conclusion takes up the conspicuous absence of life after marriage in the prior chapters by examining Edith Wharton’s late novel The Gods Arrive (1932), other interwar writing about marriage and maternity, and more recent media that likewise deals with these stumbling blocks for modern ideals of female independence. The Gods Arrive is both a catalog of modern love—divorce, trial marriage, companionate marriage, free love, single motherhood—and a saga of failed female authorship that enumerates how new liberties differently disempower women and preserve expectations of their affective labor, while further excluding them from alternative forms of production. The chapter concludes by exploring the endurance of modern sentimentalism in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing by female authors, and argues that ironic sentimentalism continues to afford women artists a formal and structural logic for expressing the double binds of modern femininity.

The Marriage Customs of the Ovimbundu

Africa ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-348
Author(s):  
Raul Kavita Evambi
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
Marriage Customs ◽  
Trial Marriage

A Young man and a young woman of the same village or of divisions of the same village look and look at each other with shy glances. The young man is in love with the girl and the girl is in love with the young man. One day the young man will speak to the other young men in the onjango and say, Fellows, Ngandi's little daughter hurts me. Now then if I had said, After a few days I shall send you to propose a trial marriage to her, would it have been all right? Then the others will say, Yeah, old man, maybe you are talking nonsense; we thought that there was something between you, as you avoid each other; there is no hindrance, it is all right in that quarter, old fellow.

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