Crossword-Solution: ENDOGAMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Endogamy | n. | Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “ENDOGAMY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Custom of marriage within a tribe. | 1 answer |
| Marriage within a group | 1 answer |
| inbreeding | 1 answer |
| marriage within one's own tribe or similar unit | 1 answer |
| MARRIAGE, type of | 10 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ENDOGAMY (5)
What has been called by some ethnologists endogamy and exogamy are correlative parts of one regulation, and the Wyandots, like all other tribes of which we have any knowledge in North America, are both endogamous and exogamous.
ENDOGAMY AND CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES I found no vestige of endogamy nor of the totem system that is such a remarkable and widespread feature of Polynesian, Melanesian, and cognate peoples in Oceania.
Monogamy, endogamy, exogamy, Australian marriages, tabu, prohibited degrees and sacerdotal celibacy all furnished him with historical arguments to show that society could bring about almost any restriction it chose; and a glance around at the present day will show that the barriers set up by religion, race and social position are frequently of almost prohibitive effect.
The second and third stages are commonly characterized, like the first, by established prohibitions and by clan exogamy; though with the advance in organization amicable relations with certain other groups are usually established, whereby the germ of tribal organization is implanted and a system of interclan marriage, or tribal endogamy, is developed.
Rules of endogamy and exogamy; privileges, restricted to certain classes, of eating together, are not only Indian or Aryan, but world-wide phenomena.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).