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Meanings of exogamy in English

Russian
экзогамия
Portuguese
exogamia
Catalan
exogàmia
Spanish
exogamico

Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.

      экзогамия

      The custom of marrying outside a specified group of people to which a person belongs.

            Usage of exogamy in English
            1
            Where local exogamy is the rule, kinship is also virtually patrilineal.
            Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
            2
            We come very quickly upon what may be termed natural exogamy.
            Folklore as an Historical Science
            3
            Yes, there is obviously something to be said for exogamy.
            South Wind
            4
            These are descent from animals, animal tabus, the sacramental eating of an animal, and exogamy.
            The Religion of the Ancient Celts
            5
            McLennan, who first called attention to its prevalence and importance, called it exogamy, or marrying-out.
            Primitive Love and Love-Stories
            6
            The evidence from exogamy: the law which forbids marriage between persons of the same family name.
            Custom and Myth
            7
            Female exogamy means that apes are largely devoid of mechanisms for females to build coalitions of relatives.
            The Red Queen
            8
            They are exogamy, lineage and totemism.
            Anthropology
            9
            He has a most extensive table of prohibited degrees.' Thus exogamy seems to be a survival of barbarism.
            Custom and Myth
            10
            There are no restrictions in the choice of a wife that might indicate a rule of endogamy or exogamy.
            The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
            11
            He had studied the totemism and exogamy of the primitive races, and here was his opportunity to understand polygamy.
            The Rainbow Trail
            12
            Mr. M'Lennan did not live to publish a subtle theory of the origin of exogamy, which he had elaborated.
            Custom and Myth
            13
            Firstly, exogamy and totemism, whether they be in origin distinct or not, tend in practice to go pretty closely together.
            Anthropology
            14
            It seems to be fairly hard for a species to switch from female exogamy to male exogamy, or vice versa.
            The Red Queen
            15
            Having separately examined the three principles of exogamy, lineage and totemism, we must now try to see how they work together.
            Anthropology
            16
            Endogamous tribes have survived, in the main, in isolated regions where competition was not sufficiently sharp to set a premium on exogamy.
            Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex
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            Translations for exogamy
            Portuguese
            exogamia
            Catalan
            exogàmia
            Exogamy through the time