Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anthropology The custom of marrying within a particular social or cultural group in accordance with custom or law.
- noun Biology Reproduction by the fusion of gametes of similar ancestry, as in self-pollination or inbreeding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fusion or coalescence of two or more female gametes.
- noun Marriage within the tribe: a custom among some savage peoples: opposed to exogamy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to
exogamy .
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- noun The practice of
marrying or requiring to marry within one’s ownethnic ,religious , orsocial group.
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- noun marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is no evidence of the practice of endogamy which is so widespread among the Oceanic peoples.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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In sociological terms, marrying within one’s ethnic or religious group is called endogamy, while marrying outside is exogamy.
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Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.
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Thus endogamy, rather than being used to create or sustain a narrow elite, was instead a component of a more general settler identity that embraced landed gentry, middling stock farmers, and households of modest means.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Exogamous unions with newly-arrived immigrants, with locally-born settlers from previously unrelated families (including free blacks), and with manumitted slaves coexisted with endogamy, suggesting that parents and/or cohorts of siblings sought to reinforce existing connections and to make new alliances in every generation.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The prevalence of familial endogamy evident in the second and third generations of van Heerden marriages was more common.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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But we can get around that (using words like endogamy and homophily).
Philip N. Cohen: Take My Words For It: Homogamy and Heterogamy 2010
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Seeing their crushes being swept away from them, a trio of girls, Leah Goldstein, Rebecca Goldman and Abby Goldberg goKabbalistic on the competition by creating a golem out of Playdohtomete out justice in the name of endogamy.
March Madness, Purim Pandemonium « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
chained_bear commented on the word endogamy
"To choose a mate from inside the cousinhood seemed right, because a wedding within the clan kept intact estates and black villages that would otherwise be divided by fresh blood. Since other colonial families did the same, the fund of suitable mates never grew much. Anthropologists call it endogamy—the prohibition of marriage outside the group, in this case the caste of slave owners. The Anglican Church, citing the book of Leviticus, banned sex between close kin. Nearly all the rice families, including the Balls, were careful Episcopalians, but they did not mind trespassing the old Mosaic law. So they married each other, as an aunt of mine used to say, 'until they all grew tails.'"
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 242
October 13, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word endogamy
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Marriage within the tribe: a custom among some savage peoples: opposed to exogamy.
Savage peoples? When was this definition written ... 100 years ago?
January 11, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word endogamy
Some definitions might have been written more than 100 years ago. I'll add this to my list of disturbing-definitions-from-the-century-dictionary.
January 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word endogamy
dog(a)matic?
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January 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word endogamy
"Will engine require coal?" --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013