[1] Such formal exchange may be seen in the ceremony of the traditional Christian wedding,[citation needed] in which the bride is given to the groom by her father.
In this, he combined Mauss' ideas about the importance of gifts in primitive societies with the role of the incest taboo in forcing exchanges of mates outside of closely related family groups.
This is seen in Old Testament narratives such as the stories spread across the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.
[4] In Afghanistan and remote areas of Pakistan, women may be exchanged in compensation for a debt or offence such as murder.
[5] The exchange of women in the course of male bonding appears as a theme in the novels The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn.