endogamy
Americannoun
noun
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anthropol marriage within one's own tribe or similar unit Compare exogamy
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pollination between two flowers on the same plant
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Its vast, diverse population includes thousands of communities shaped by centuries of endogamy, or marriage within groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But crucially, Prof Oddie thinks the main risk to genetic health in Bradford is not cousin marriage, but a similar issue known as endogamy, in which people marry members of their close community.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
We were undateable, and the level of endogamy amongst us was startling.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 6, 2020
But those assigned to Kyrgyzstan’s northern province of Karakol established their own village—Yrdyk—choosing a life isolation and endogamy instead.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2017
There are many reasons why endogamy seems more primitive than exogamy, and it required force of interest, superstition, or vanity to carry a society over from the former to the latter.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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