exogamy

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Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
adulteress
affinal
as husband and wifeidiom
be an itemidiom
be shacked upidiom
have something going with someoneidiom
hear wedding bellsidiom
hitched
honest
husband
matrimony
monogamist
monogamous
monogamously
ménage à trois
shack
shack up
situationship
something
together

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Custom, tradition & conformity

Examples of endogamy

endogamy
Perhaps such cultural facts could be inferred from analyses of phenomena such as social conflict (or warfare), exogamy/endogamy or subcultural diversity within regional settlements.
This finding points towards the widening of marriage fields and sheds light on the process of decreasing geographical endogamy in the twentieth century.
When those with different occupations are compared, the greatest extent of village endogamy is seen among the shepherds.
A clear occupational effect on choice of partner is evident in the importance of occupational endogamy for all sectors.
Inherent in this argument is that the enclave had a male-to-female ratio of residents that was amenable to endogamy.
But endogamy is the social reflection of biological inbreeding, and it may, therefore, also be disadvantageous.
To offset this, it is possible that the extravagant endogamy may diminish.
The marriage pattern is clearly one of tight endogamy as well as biological inbreeding.
Rates of village endogamy decrease for the group of artisans and traders, and are much lower for the day labourers.
Their exclusivity, their endogamy (forbidding suitors ' from the world '), have all the hallmarks of sectarian inwardness.
Remaining a closed society through social endogamy was considered essential to sustaining their sense of exclusivity and superiority.
The author concludes that over the long term the campaign against endogamy very largely attained its objectives.
If the frequency of endogamy is reduced, this should be accompanied by a diminution in the incidence of congenital malformations.
The former is reinforced by both the economic opportunities afforded to women, and by the acceptability of village endogamy and uxorilocal marriages.
Among the graduate sample there were, as we have seen, groups for whom endogamy was incomplete.
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