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아프리카의 신부대(bride wealth) 관습: 변화와 재구성의 맥락

The Custom of Bride Wealth in Africa:The Context of Change and Reconstruction

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비교문화연구소 (Center for Cross Culture Studies)|2018.03|비교문화연구 (Cross-Cultural Studies)|제50권 |pp. 131-172|DOI 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..131

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인식가정 폭력domestic violenceperception변화Africa아프리카change재구성reconstructiongender inequality양성 불평등신부대bride wealth
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초록

오늘날 아프리카 사회에서는 신부대 관습이 지극히 왜곡된 형태로 나타나고 있다. 이러한 현상은 남성 지배적인 문화, 서구 종교 및 자본주의 경제 체제가 부정적으로 결합한 결과다. 이것은 신부대가 ‘전통’과 ‘근대성’의 충돌과 갈등 속에서 끊임없이 재구성되었음을 의미한다. 신부대 관행이 생계 방식, 조혼, 일부다처제, 친족(가족) 구조, 빈곤, 이주 노동 등과 서로 밀접하게 얽혀 있는 것도 사실이다. 자본주의 경제 체제하에서 신부대는 점점 상업화되고 있다. 이에 따라 신부대의 전통적 상징성은 약화하고 있는 반면, 여성이 물화되는 경향은 강해지고 있다. 신부대의 상업화는 여성 인권 침해, 양성 불평등, 가정 폭력 등을 부추기는 결과를 초래한다. 행위 주체들은 성별, 세대, 계층, 종족 등의 인구학적·사회경제적 배경에 따라 신부대를 다르게 인식한다. 자본주의의 영향으로 신부대가 상업화될수록, 이 제도를 부정적으로 인식하는 사람도 더욱 늘어나게 될 것이다. 신부대라는 관습의 빛깔은 이것을 실천하는 주체들이 사회경제적 변화에 어떤 식으로 반응하느냐에 따라 달라진다. 그들은 주어진 환경 속에서 신부대를 끊임없이 재해석하고 재구성할 것이다.

Abstract

It is noted that nowadays, the bride wealth custom takes an extremely distorted form in African society. Such a phenomenon is a result that the male-dominant culture, Western religions, and capitalist economic system have been negatively combined into dynamic factors seen as bride wealth. This means that the concept of bride wealth has been incessantly reconstructed in the middle of clash and conflict of tradition and modernity. There is also little doubt that the practice is inextricably tangled with the common and current ways of livelihood, early marriage, polygyny, kinship/family structure, poverty, and migration labor. Bride wealth has become an increasingly commercialized element under a capitalist economic system. Accordingly, its traditional symbolism is seen to be subsequently weakening, whereas a tendency towards the reification of women is strengthening more in modern society that embraces modern customs bent on the protection of women’s human rights. Its commercialization has produced a result, which instigates the noted violations of women’s basic human rights, gender inequality, and promotion of domestic violence. The ways that people perceive bride wealth vary according to their own sex, generation, stratification, and ethnic background. Those people who negatively recognize bride wealth will increase with the deepening of its commercialization due to the influence of capitalism. Its color and effect will deepen and depend on how its agents correspond to socioeconomic changes. They will constantly reinterpret and reconstruct it within their own environments, but the basic human rights efforts are constantly under review by concerned individuals seeking to promote equality for women as a global effort.

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