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Exogamy   Listen
noun
Exogamy  n.  The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; opposed to endogamy.





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... clan customs, 422; Control of marriage by exogamic organization, 423-428; Theories of the origin of exogamy (scarcity of women, primitive promiscuity, absence of sexual attraction between persons brought up together, patriarch's jealousy, horror of incest, migration of young men) and criticism of them, 429-435; Diffusion and function of exogamy, ...
— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy


Words linked to "Exogamy" :   marriage, exogamous, intermarriage, wedlock, matrimony, exogamic, spousal relationship, union, endogamy


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