exogamy
Americannoun
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marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.
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Biology. the union of gametes of unrelated parents.
noun
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sociol anthropol the custom or an act of marrying a person belonging to another tribe, clan, or similar social unit Compare endogamy
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biology fusion of gametes from parents that are not closely related
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Communities were locally centred around a main patriline, were related to each other through the systematic practice of female exogamy.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy.
From Time Magazine Archive
At present several theories of the origin of exogamy are before the world.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
The opposite of exogamy is endogamy, or prohibition of marriage outside the tribe.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Paul B. du Chaillu found exogamy the rule and blood marriages regarded as an abomination throughout western Equatorial Africa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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