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
The study of exogamy is practically a branch of ethnology.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
People who, like the Arunta, have lost memory of the very names of the phratries, cannot conceivably remember the nature of the origin of exogamy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
He calls exogamy “the gentile organization,” though, in point of fact, the only gentes we know, the Roman gentes, show scarcely a trace of exogamy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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