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n. - Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.

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  • They were then driven to finding strange women, and this was the origin of the exogamy which is so closely bound up with totemism.
  • Indigenous "exogamy", Aboriginal people marrying outside their race, had increased since
  • At this stage of development there was quite generally though not universally prevalent the custom of "exogamy," by which a man was forbidden to marry a woman of his own...
  • Most subcastes have an elaborate system of exogamy.
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