SU Yunxun.Property attribute superposition and relation politics in the transfer of bride price in rural areas [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2023,22(2):108⁃114.
SU Yunxun.Property attribute superposition and relation politics in the transfer of bride price in rural areas [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2023,22(2):108⁃114. DOI: 10.13842/j.cnki.issn1671-816X.2023.02.012.
Property attribute superposition and relation politics in the transfer of bride price in rural areas
The existing researches mainly focus on the bride price within the binary structure of "male family—female family", "mother family—child family" or "society—family", but less on the research as a dynamic whole, especially on the new changes of the bride price transfer and its social implications under the new situation. The research finds that the transfer path of bride price gradually expands, which is embodied in the transfer of bride price from the man's family to the woman's family, and then from the woman's family to the child family. When the bride price is transferred to the hands of the woman's parents, the property attributes of the man's family inherent in the bride price and the additional property attributes of the woman's family will be superimposed together. The superposition of property attribute blurs the property ownership of bride price, thus forming a very subtle politics relationship in the process of bride price transfer. When the bride price is finally transferred from the husband's family to the child family, the husband's family, the woman's family and the child family will eventually reach a more balanced relationship.