In the capital city of the Solomon Islands, brideprice is often given to formalize the marriage of young couples from the island of Malaita. For the young wife, brideprice is a reminder that she is expected to work and produce children for the lineage of her husband, an obligation that is at times strongly impressed upon her by her in‐laws. Data gathered in Honiara over the last 15 years, most recently in 2015–2016, show the emergence of a variety of patterns among Malaitan women living in Honiara regarding their productive and reproductive autonomy, and their role in brideprice. Beyond their diversity, what these data reveal, we argue, is that the interstitial cultural spaces created by the urbanization of social and economic relations afford young urban women the possibility of engaging with brideprice in a way that had not been possible until then. We demonstrate that, as members of an emerging new middle‐class, these women seek (either in agreement with their husbands, or in spite of them) to transform the meaning of brideprice: while showing respect to their in‐laws and to tradition, their goal is to gain greater control over their lives within the confines of brideprice sociality.

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城市妇女与霍尼亚拉2 Braedpraes1的转型

在所罗门群岛的首府，经常以彩礼来形式化来自马拉塔岛的年轻夫妇的婚姻。对于年轻的妻子来说，彩礼提醒人们，她要为丈夫的血统工作并生下孩子，这一义务有时在婆婆身上就给她留下了深刻的印象。过去15年（最近的2015-2016年）在霍尼亚拉收集的数据显示，生活在霍尼亚拉的马来妇女在生产和生殖自主权以及她们在彩礼中的作用呈现出多种模式。我们认为，除了它们的多样性以外，这些数据还揭示了什么，是由于社会和经济关系的城市化所创造的非页内文化空间使年轻的城市妇女有可能以前所未有的方式参与彩礼。我们证明，作为新兴的中产阶级的一员，这些妇女寻求（无论是与丈夫达成共识还是与丈夫达成协议）改变彩礼的含义：在尊重亲戚和传统的同时，他们的目标是在彩礼社交的范围内更好地控制自己的生活。