Sentence examples for exogamy from inspiring English sources
noun
Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Surname exogamy, or outmarriage, is still strictly observed: a Li man may not marry a Li woman.
Clan members intermarried with each other, although clan exogamy was formerly the rule.
Exogamy, forcing the individual to marry outside the group, dilutes group loyalty but increases group size and power through new external liaisons.
The Aborigines' insistence on exogamy was a complicated defense against the strong incestuous desires felt by the child for the parent of the opposite sex.
In some cases, for example in the Guianas and in the Río Negro region, the individual must find a mate outside his village or even outside his tribe (exogamy).
In some cases, the rules of exogamy may also specify the outside group into which an individual must marry.
The larger nomadic bands in South America practiced band exogamy; that is, a person in one band could marry only someone in another band.
He felt that thoughts by the tribes on these matters led eventually to taboos, and that group exogamy (out-marriage) first originated in the formation of totemistic associations.
If the creation of culture is understood as the institution of kinship structures based on exogamy, then the Oedipal drama reflects the deeper struggle between natural desire and cultural authority.
Mbidi the black prince introduces the "civilized" practices of exogamy and enlightened government based on moral character, compassion, and justice.
When marriage to an outside group is mandated, it is referred to as exogamy.
