endogamy
IPA: ɛndoʊgʌmi
noun
- The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.
- (biology) The fusion of two related gametes.
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Examples of "endogamy" in Sentences
- This tribe encourages endogamy.
- It belongs, if anywhere, in Endogamy.
- Both tribes strictly practice endogamy.
- Endogamy has to do with marriage and procreation.
- Endogamy encourages group affiliation and bonding.
- Anthropologists refer to these restrictions as endogamy.
- An ethnicity, or a tribe, is defined by customs of endogamy.
- Arranged marriages are common, and Somalis practice endogamy.
- Endogamy is common in Ashkenazi Jews and the Yazidi, for example.
- But we can get around that (using words like endogamy and homophily).
- Racial endogamy is much stronger for immigrants as compared to natives.
- Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.
- Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages.
- There is no evidence of the practice of endogamy which is so widespread among the Oceanic peoples.
- The prevalence of familial endogamy evident in the second and third generations of van Heerden marriages was more common.
- In sociological terms, marrying within one’s ethnic or religious group is called endogamy, while marrying outside is exogamy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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