endogamy
pronunciation
How to pronounce endogamy in British English:
UK [enˈdɒgəmi]
How to pronounce endogamy in American English:
US [enˈdɑgəmi]
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- Noun:
- marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Word Origin
- endogamy (n.)
- "marriage within the tribe or group," 1865, from endo- on model of polygamy. Related: Endogamous (1865). Opposed to exogamy. Apparently both were coined by Scottish anthropologist John Ferguson McLennan (1827-1881) in "Primitive Marriage." To this law, the converse of caste, forbidding marriage within the tribe, Mr. M'Lennan has given the name of exogamy: while, instead of caste, since that word involves notions unconnected with marriage, he has used the correlative word -- endogamy. [review in "The Lancet," March 25, 1865]
Example
- 1. From this primitive indifference they may have advanced , some to endogamy , some to exogamy .
- 2. It may be noted , however , that endogamy appears in populations formed by the fusion of many tribes , as the almost uniform characteristic of the dominant race .
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- 4. Hereafter we shall see how a tribe organized on the principle of endogamy might be developed from one organized on the principle of exogamy , in perfect consistency with the law against the intermarriage of relations .
- 5. Caste identity has been sustained and reproduced by caste endogamy , and so are the caste hierarchical values . That 's why caste is not the same as ethnicity , though the latter might hint the direction that the former will evolve .