Endogamy

There is no evidence of the practice of endogamy which is so widespread among the Oceanic peoples. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)

In sociological terms, marrying within one’s ethnic or religious group is called endogamy, while marrying outside is exogamy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages. ❋ Suzan Crane (2011)

Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The prevalence of familial endogamy evident in the second and third generations of van Heerden marriages was more common. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kin networks, endogamy, and repeated affinal marriages were evident by the second generation, establishing patterns that persisted throughout the eighteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is even a term for this, disciplinary endogamy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But we can get around that (using words like endogamy and homophily). ❋ Unknown (2010)

While not all of the private religious schools carefully censor knowledge such as Calvin, Notre Dame, BYU, many of the rest are basically glorified dating services promoting endogamy and baby sitting and fake degree mills. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It might have been thought that greater adherence to cultural pluralism would lead to endogamy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instances of Creoles raping or “kidnapping” young Jewish women were not unknown; given the norm of endogamy and the low regard many Jews had for the uneducated Creoles, stealing away under the guise of kidnapping was perhaps the only way for a Jewish girl to marry one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The tension between marriage within a group (endogamy) and marriage with outsiders (exogamy) is dramatized in this story of love and violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not to nitpick, but endogamy is not marriage between cousins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, some societies require clan endogamy, others require clan exogamy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Given a strong preference for endogamy in most Jewish families and the relatively low rate of inter-faith marriage among Jewish women but somewhat higher rate for Jewish men, some young women and their families might have been concerned about a possible shortage of appropriate spouses. ❋ Unknown (2009)