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The Meaning of Dowry: Changing Values in Rural Greece

Much of the work on dowry in Greece to the present date has been focused on its function as a means of transferring property from the family of the bride to that of the new couple, thus categorizing it as an aspect of inheritance.1 This paper concentrates on a different aspect of dowryÂ—that is, dowry as an expression of attitudes toward women. Dowry does not, of course, offer a comprehensive picture of these attitudes; thus, although one set of attitudes discussed in this paper comprises a general view of women throughout their lives, the embodiment of these attitudes in the institution of dowry reveals a perspective on women at marriage which is not necessarily shown in the way in which men consciously think of them or treat them in the day-to-day running of the house. However, the perspective offered by the symbolism of the dowry, occurring as it does at a critical moment in the life of a woman, and uniting as it does her place in her family of origin with her place in her family of procreation, provides what is probably the most general level of understanding about women which is present in the culture. The form of dowry has changed considerably in recent years, however, and the attitudes to women revealed by the dowry have changed with it. This paper is concerned with dowry both past and present in the small mountain village of AmbÃ©li in North Euboea. In this area the forms of the dowry belong, broadly speaking, to two distinct periods: the earlier time, when a traditional way of life and thought continued to mold the lives of all the villagers, and the later period when a distinct watershed had been reached and passed, and beyond which there is noticeable a continuing and ever-increasing decline in these traditional values. 1950Â—55 is the turning point between these two periods, for 1950 marks the end of the civil war and