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Tapper, Nancy. Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 309 pp. including references and index. $54.50 cloth.
Nazzari, Muriel. Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600–1900. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xx + 245 pp. including appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 cloth.