CHARACTERISTICS OF MARRIAGE FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA

Abstract

Marriage is the combination of a man and a woman which usually originates from their sexual relationship, but hardly anywhere in the world, irrespective of social political regime, is marriage identified just with sexual relations. Marriage contains cultural meaning, profound eonomic-social characteristics and is the cultural reflection of human intervention in nature. Depending on social conditions and ethnic cultural factors, marriage takes place in different forms, reflecting the most general law of human social development through historical periods and containing ethnic cultural characteristics. Therefore, marriage has become the subject of research in many fields of social sciences and humanities. This research paper will discuss more about the economic social-cultural characteristics of marriage in view of anthropological theory and data.