exogamy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From exo- + -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.[1] Compare outmarriage.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɛkˈsɒ.ɡə.mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɛkˈsɑ.ɡə.mi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡəmi
Noun
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exogamy (countable and uncountable, plural exogamies)
- Marriage to or mating with a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own, especially as required by custom or law.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermarriage
- Antonyms: endogamy; see also Thesaurus:intermarriage
- 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 226:
- The daughters of Danaüs thus apparently stand for mother-right, which usually occurs in conjunction with exogamy, marriage outside the family or clan.
- 1932, G. S. Ghurye, “Caste, Sub-caste and Kin”, in Caste and Race in India, New Delhi: Popular Prakashan, →ISBN, page 133:
- If the ‘gotra’ of the bridegroom's mother's father was Jatukarnya, as it well could be, then the situation becomes much more easy for the groom. For then he has to avoid only the seven surnames that come under the Jatukarnya ‘gotra’ in addition to the 265 surnames to be avoided under the general rule of ‘gotra’-exogamy.
- (biology) The fusion of two unrelated gametes.
- Antonym: endogamy
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]marriage — see also miscegenation
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