endogamous

[ en-dog-uh-muhs ]

adjective

of or relating to the practice of allowing marriage only within a specific tribe, caste, ethnic or religious group, or other social unit:The Bosnian War restricted social relations between different ethnic groups, intensifying endogamous practices in some villages.

Origin of endogamous

First recorded in 1860–65; endo- + -gamous; coined in by Scottish anthropologist and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan (1827–1881)

The same community cannot be 'both exogamous and endogamous,' as some suppose.
Social Origins and Primal Law | Andrew Lang
These communities may or may not be exogamous, they may even be endogamous.
The Secret of the Totem | Andrew Lang
And while thus the "gens" was strictly exogamous, the tribe comprising an aggregate of "gentes" was equally endogamous.
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State | Frederick Engels
The least doubt in the strictly independent existence of exogamous and endogamous tribes was considered a frivolous sacrilege.
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State | Frederick Engels
They thought the camel to be the agent of the disease.50 A woman amongst the same people contracted an endogamous marriage.
Folkways | William Graham Sumner

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