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The definition's shift: for anthropology, marriage is less a legal contract than an alliancebetween groups — Lévi-Strauss's thesis: the incest taboo forces exchange; marriage is society's first gift system (women/gifts circulating between groups, creating affinity where blood could not — "alliance theory"). From this follows the anthropological eye for marriage systems: endogamy/ exogamy rules (gotra, clan), preferential marriages (cross-cousin marriage — mother's brother's daughter — among many Kirat and other communities), levirate and sororate (widow-succession customs), and the bridewealth/brideprice vs dowry axis (Africa's cattle bridewealth vs South Asia's dowry — opposite flows, opposite logics: group-building vs status-buying). Nepal'scomparative richness (cite three): fraternal polyandry in the trans-Himalaya (Unit SOC 6.1's land-ecology case); Newar elaboration (the bel marriage — ihi — pre-puberty ritual marriage to the bel fruit, immunising later widowhood; barha seclusion); the deuki and jhuma dedications of the far-west and Sherpa Buddhist orders (girls dedicated to temples/monasteries — institutions now reformed by law) — marriage as ritual technology, kinship engineering, and (in the dowry's pathology) violence's site (Sociology Unit 7.4's ledger).