exogamy
pronunciation
How to pronounce exogamy in British English:
UK [ekˈsɒgəmi]
How to pronounce exogamy in American English:
US [ekˈsɑgəmi]
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- Noun:
- marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Word Origin
- exogamy (n.)
- 1865, Modern Latin, literally "outside marriage," from exo- + -gamy. Related: Exogamous (1865). Apparently coined by Scottish anthropologist John Ferguson McLennan (1827-1881) in "Primitive Marriage" (see endogamy).
Example
- 1. Where have you seen exogamy before ?
- 2. Mclennan then goes on toask : whence this custom of exogamy ?
- 3. Exogamy : the custom of marrying outside the tribe , family , clan , or other social unit .
- 4. From this primitive indifference they may have advanced , some to endogamy , some to exogamy .
- 5. Last , it analyzestherelationship between totemism and exogamy , andthethree functions of exogamy .