“People use justifications for bride kidnapping: ‘Aaah we always did this. As nomads it’s how we carried off our women’. It’s a highly romanticised vision,” he says.
“There is [also] the economic argument: ‘I can’t afford to pay for a bride or a wedding” (in Kyrgyzstan you are expected to pay a “bride price” and host the family — a cost that is often beyond many of the poorer males).
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