Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.
The custom of marrying outside a specified group of people to which a person belongs.
1 Where local exogamy is the rule, kinship is also virtually patrilineal.
2 We come very quickly upon what may be termed natural exogamy .
3 Yes, there is obviously something to be said for exogamy .
4 These are descent from animals, animal tabus, the sacramental eating of an animal, and exogamy .
5 McLennan, who first called attention to its prevalence and importance, called it exogamy , or marrying-out.
6 The evidence from exogamy : the law which forbids marriage between persons of the same family name.
7 Female exogamy means that apes are largely devoid of mechanisms for females to build coalitions of relatives.
8 They are exogamy , lineage and totemism.
9 He has a most extensive table of prohibited degrees.' Thus exogamy seems to be a survival of barbarism.
10 There are no restrictions in the choice of a wife that might indicate a rule of endogamy or exogamy .
11 He had studied the totemism and exogamy of the primitive races, and here was his opportunity to understand polygamy.
12 Mr. M'Lennan did not live to publish a subtle theory of the origin of exogamy , which he had elaborated.
13 Firstly, exogamy and totemism, whether they be in origin distinct or not, tend in practice to go pretty closely together.
14 It seems to be fairly hard for a species to switch from female exogamy to male exogamy , or vice versa.
15 Having separately examined the three principles of exogamy , lineage and totemism, we must now try to see how they work together.
16 Endogamous tribes have survived, in the main, in isolated regions where competition was not sufficiently sharp to set a premium on exogamy .
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