exogamy
noun
marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.
exogamic
-
a word derived from
exogamy.
Example Sentences
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The particular exogamic customs vary considerably among early tribes, the differences following, in general, differences of social organization.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
The Seri are loosely organised in a number of exogamic, matrilineal, totemic clans.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Besides this exogamic marriage, an endogamic marriage was later recognized as conferring title, on the condition that the man reconciled the woman's blood relatives by the payment of a definite compensation.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
Later there was a taboo on exogamic marriage.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
The former are patrilineal and the latter are grouped into matrilineal exogamic totemic clans.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
