NOUN
- marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
How To Use exogamy In A Sentence
- Increasing exogamy among mainline Protestants reflects this pool effect, but that accounts for only part of the total increase in exogamy, as can be seen in Figure 5.9. American Grace
- Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, _beena_ marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin. The Golden Bough
- Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
- Individual choice is constrained by kin group exogamy.
- They were then driven to finding strange women, and this was the origin of the exogamy which is so closely bound up with totemism. Warranted Christian Belief
- Its very complicated character, and the fact that the two principal classes sometimes do not even have names, seem to preclude the idea of its having been the first form of exogamy, which is a strong natural feeling, so much so that it may almost be described as an instinct, though of course not a primitive animal instinct. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
- Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
- Exogamy remains much less prevalent among African Americans.
- Female exogamy means that apes are largely devoid of mechanisms for females to build coalitions of relatives.
- Indigenous "exogamy", Aboriginal people marrying outside their race, had increased since Undefined