What are Bushmen marriage customs?

Question

What are Bushmen marriage customs?

Answer 1

It depends on the bushmen, since there are a lot of different groups.

Some of them get married really young, from 7 to 14 years for girls and the boys at 14 or so.  Most marriages are monogamous, but polygamy is allowed if the man is able to afford it, and it's encouraged to marry among cousins; this can be pretty complicated since the way families are named and recognized can mean a cousin is counted as a sibling.

Marriages are typically arranged, to benefit the community as much as the individuals.

Answer 2

The Bushman kinship system reflects their interdependence as traditionally small, mobile foraging bands. Also, the kinship system is comparable to the Eskimo kinship system, with the same set of terms as in Western countries, and also employ a name rule and an age rule. The age rule resolves any confusion arising around kinship terms, because the older of two people always decides what to call the younger. According to the name rule, if any two people have the same name, for example an old man and a young man both named ǀTwi, each family uses the same kin term to refer to them: Young ǀTwi's mother could call Old ǀTwi "son", Old ǀTwi would address young ǀTwi's sister as his own, Young ǀTwi would call Old ǀTwi's wife "wife", and Old ǀTwi's daughter would be strictly forbidden to Young ǀTwi as a potential bride. Since relatively few names circulate approximately only 35 names per gender, and each child is named for a grandparent or other relative, Bushmen are guaranteed an enormous family group with whom they are welcome to travel.

Answer 3

Some differ from time to time ,,,,,,,,,,,