This article discusses the giving of panaik money to Bugis marriage customs outside dowry obligation. culture has long been carried out at traditional weddings. The custom become a topic discussion among academics because it is not included in pillars and conditions Islam or positive law. that sometimes considered burdensome prospective groom cause be annulled. research library with normative a...

This research deals with a topic about woman's dowry in the light of legitimate purposes one intentional scholars, Sheikh Ibn Ashour. The clarifies dowry, her portrayal, and Sharia according to Ashour, then analyzes achieves them three interests. And this has tried answer problems, most important which is nature Ashour how achieve it interests? aims know woman method an analytical desk by depic...

Homicidal burning of married women in India is a major concern for the Government, law-enforcing authorities, the judiciary, the police and medico-legal experts all over the country who are associated with dowry disputes. Dowry death, a heinous crime, is gradually engulfing and polluting the entire society. Sections 304(B) and 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) have been introduced and Secti...

This paper uses ethnographic and econometric methods to study the determinants of wife abuse in a community of potters in Southern India. The qualitative work demonstrates that wife abuse is more likely when dowries are perceived as inadequate, when husbands are alcoholic, and when the cause of the abuse is perceived as "legitimate" by the community. Hypotheses generated from the qualitative wo...

Marriage payments: a fundamental reconsideration Abstract This paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody andThis paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody and Stanley Tambiah (1973), Bridewealth and Dowry. Given the general acceptance of Goody’s framework in contemporary studies of marriage and marriage payments, it is essential that we re...

We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on crimes against women using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002-2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported domestic violence by 4.4 percent and dowry deaths by 7.8 percent. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. These patterns are consistent with consumption smoothing by households rel...