Brideservice has traditionally been portrayed in the anthropological literature as the service rendered to the bride’s family by the bridegroom as a brideprice or part of one (see dowry). Brideservice and bridewealth models frame anthropological discussions of kinship in many regions of the world. Patterns of uxorilocal post-marital residence, as well as the practice of temporary or prolonged brideservice, have been widely reported for Native Amazonia. In Amazonia, brideservice is frequ… (More on Brideservice)