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Karen Davis-Brown, Sonya Salamon, Catherine A. Surra, Economic and Social Factors in Mate Selection: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Agricultural Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 41-55
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