Anthropologists Think of Bride Price as Being About Not Buying

Anthropologists think of bride price as being about not buying anyone, but as compensation for rights in women-her labor, her support for family affairs, her looking after children, and rights of sexual access. What other social payment is structurally most dissimilar to a bride price payment from this perspective?

A) a series of child price payments
B) a father's purchase of a new car for his daughter when she goes off to college
C) acountergift for a bride price payment, usually of much lesser value than the original bride price payment
D) an American Valentine's Day gift, given by a college student to his girlfriend