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exogamy

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exogamy

The custom of marrying outside one's family, tribe, or clan; the converse of endogamy. It leads to the creation of ties of kinship between groups, and sometimes prevents close inbreeding.



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Tabili, "Outsiders in the Land of Their Birth: Exogamy, Citizenship, and Identity in War and Peace," forthcoming in the Journal of British Studies, 44, 4 (October 2005).
For Italians, and Italian Americans, the received values attached to the cultural significance of "blood" are structured according to a specific exogamy, in turn grounded in patterns of social practice actively concerned with maintaining and validating a longstanding history of family traditions.
The shift to egalitarian relations in recent decades is a shift "from gender and identity exogamy to gender and identity endogamy" rather than forming relations with straight partners (p.
 
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