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Traditional Chinese marriages.
Title: Traditional Chinese marriages.
Category: Society & Culture / Geography
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Traditional Chinese marriages.
Ember (2002, p.343) defines marriage as "a socially approved sexual and economic union, usually between a woman and a man". Because marriage customs differ widely according to culture, it is obviously of great interest to the cultural anthropologist. For example, marriage rites in some cultures may involve highly complex ceremonial rituals, whereas marriage rites in other cultures may be relatively simple. The Chinese (in this essay, meaning native inhabitants of China) seem to have an affinity …showed first 75 words of 1117 total…
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Chinats.com. (1995). A Hakka Wedding. Retrieved March 20, 2004 from the World Wide Web: http://www.chinats.com/fujian/folk_customs/hakka_village/002.htm
Ember, C.R., Ember, M., & Peregrine, P.N. (2002). Anthropology. (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Russell, C. Y. (n.d.). Child Bride. Retrieved March 20, 2004 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.boydsmillspress.com/pdfs/ChildBride.pdf.
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