exogamous

• “These are called exogamous groups or clans, and their name among the higher castes is _gotra_.”

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)

• “An important social characteristic of the early Jewish Berlin salon circles was their tendency to exogamous and hypergamous marriages, their contribution to social mobility by providing marriage connections of beautiful, rich and/or clever young ladies with young men outside their own social circle, often with men of the aristocracy.”

  Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century.

• “Hertz has introduced social statistics and important sociological categories like “exogamous” and “hypergamous” marriages into the research on Berlin salons.”

  Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century.

• “An exogamous Jewish man, however, must either have had his spouse convert prior to the birth of their children or have seen to it that the children themselves were formally converted for them to be considered Jewish by the overwhelming majority of Jews.”

  Intermarriage and Conversion in the United States.

• “The copusins are thus the closest exogamous partners.”

  Irving Kristol and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb

• “In most societies that practice cousin marriage, it is exogamous, i.e. outside the lineage or family.”

  Irving Kristol and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb

• “Written, oral, and clay sources indicate that women's pots have tended to travel great distances along networks of exchange, migration, visiting, and exogamous marriage; these clay wares have also shown a remarkable capacity for outlasting their creators.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

• “As a result of patrilocal, clan-exogamous marriage, every community traditionally contained a mix of women from different places, who usually arrived at their vukatini knowing few people other than their husband.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

• “So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.”

  The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll

• “The novel's odd, endogamous gift economy disappears along with Alphonse Frankenstein, to be replaced by this thoroughly proper, exogamous transaction.”

  Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations

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