endogamy among the aborigines is still oberved at present as a way to protect their culture. From LearnThat.org.
There is no evidence of the practice of endogamy which is so widespread among the Oceanic peoples. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
In sociological terms, marrying within one’s ethnic or religious group is called endogamy, while marrying outside is exogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Intermarriage and Conversion in the United States.] Reference
There is even a term for this, disciplinary endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Two Body Problem « Imaginary Potential] Reference
Not to nitpick, but endogamy is not marriage between cousins. From Wordnik.com. [Irving Kristol and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But we can get around that (using words like endogamy and homophily). From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: Take My Words For It: Homogamy and Heterogamy] Reference
For example, some societies require clan endogamy, others require clan exogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Irving Kristol and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
This endogamy rules out any interaction and intermarriage with the other castes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
This caste sustained through the maintance of hierarchy and the principles of endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages. From Wordnik.com. [Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe] Reference
It might have been thought that greater adherence to cultural pluralism would lead to endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Intermarriage and Conversion in the United States.] Reference
The prevalence of familial endogamy evident in the second and third generations of van Heerden marriages was more common. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
I found no vestige of endogamy nor of the totem system that is such a remarkable and widespread feature of Polynesian, Melanesian, and cognate peoples in Oceania. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Kin networks, endogamy, and repeated affinal marriages were evident by the second generation, establishing patterns that persisted throughout the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
The characteristic of endogamy is reinforced by proximity, cultural familiarity, and also social pressure in extreme cases, by legal command to procreate within the ethnic group. From Wordnik.com. [Who The Hell Is This Idiot? « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
And I think that their weak endogamy does make Ashkenazi Jews a. From Wordnik.com. [Dissecting Leftism] Reference
Act be amended to legitimize the age-old taboo on gotra endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
What is the relation of endogamy and exogamy (a) to isolation, and. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
They formerly had endogamy, and it is stated that brothers and sisters married. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Then why was endogamy so prized and those that married out of their ethnicity ostracized?. From Wordnik.com. [orrologion] Reference
On the other hand, endogamy is both cause and effect of weakness and proceeds with decline. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
We find the same when we study endogamy, exogamy, Australian marriages, and the control of marriage by taboo. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
The names show that as usual with the tribes of this part of the country the law of endogamy is by no means strict. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
Dravidian castes which are identified with this cult have the striking peculiarity of being exogamous as contrasted with the endogamy of the. From Wordnik.com. [India, Its Life and Thought] Reference
In general the strictest endogamy is practised, and there are certain well-defined degrees of relationship within which marriage is forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Shakadvipi, endogamy within a gotra is permitted and alternative mechanisms of restricting endogamy are used (eg banning endogamy within a surname). From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India is changing] Reference
With its hierarchy and division into endogamous groups, caste endogamy was necessary to maintain the racial purity of the Aryans: castes were conceived as races. From Wordnik.com. [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference
Chautala defended his stand by saying that the same-gotra marriage taboo had a scientific basis in the form of findings about the harmful consequences of sub-caste endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
At a very local scale within the Guangdong province, we observed evidence of population structure among dialect groups, probably on account of endogamy within these dialects. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
NCSY is doing kiruv, the are successfully promoting endogamy. that’s it for a lot of people. From Wordnik.com. [NCSY addresses divide between yeshiva students and parents | Jewschool] Reference
A trophy, and the play of this fact on vanity would always tend to disintegrate the system of endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
At the same time a nice diagnostic for endogamy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Avigdor Lieberman Boosted By Pro-Pork Backlash] Reference
'cousin' means a level of consanguinity that prevents endogamy, "Mr Cullen said. From Wordnik.com. [Clerical Whispers] Reference
Our terms "endogamy," "mother family,". From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Tagged: dating, disciplinary endogamy, marriage, Physics, women in physics. From Wordnik.com. [Two Body Problem « Imaginary Potential] Reference
They are monogamy, endogamy, exogamy, Australian marriages, taboo, prohibited degrees, and celibacy. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
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