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  • Tribes worshiping the same Totem do not intermarry as they consider themselves to be blood relatives & therefore they practice Clan Exogamy.

    TOTEMISM 2008

  • Exogamy is a simple fact of human existence—which is why authoritarian states have to pass laws against it.

    Why I think Nations are dinosaurs Steven Barnes 2007

  • Exogamy is a simple fact of human existence—which is why authoritarian states have to pass laws against it.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • Exogamy or the rigid interdiction of marriage between clans and families nearly related; here again the

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • "Exogamy!" said SWEZEY, and began to puzzle out the probable results and causes of this curious prohibition.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 Various

  • Exogamy is the rule which obliges a man to marry a woman of a different clan from his own: beena marriage is the rule that he must leave the home of his birth and live with his wife's people; and female kinship or mother-kin is the system of tracing relationship and transmitting the family name through women instead of through men.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Exogamy is the rule which obliges a man to marry a woman of a different clan from his own: beena marriage is the rule that he must leave the home of his birth and live with his wife’s people; and female kinship or mother-kin is the system of tracing relationship and transmitting the family name through women instead of through men.

    Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium 1922

  • Exogamy, endogamy, monogamy, polygamy, -- all these are customs and taboos, and though in our day and country monogamy has the social and religious sanction, there is nothing to indicate that this is a permanent resting place for marriage.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • Totemism and Exogamy (London, 1910); LANG, Secret of the Totem

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Frazer afterwards rejected this theory as too complex, and says that probably the co-operative communities of totemic magicians in Australia are developments of Totemism rather than its germ (Totemism and Exogamy, IV, p. 57).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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