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These subclans are exogamous, and the members refer to each other by using kinship terms.
This is suggestive of a patrilocal, exogamous marriage pattern consistent with documented historic Algonquian practices in the region.
These exogamous marriages introduced the possibility of idolatry and syncretistic practices into the community.
Among Chaldeans, most exogamous marriages bring an outsider into the community, rather than resulting in the loss of a member.
Furthermore, the number of exogamous English-French households14 is growing, as are households in which at least one of the members is allophone.
The work will focus on a number of areas, including the preschool sector and, with it, exogamous families with young children.
Such a plan must rely on hosting programs, the support of exogamous parents and targeted early childhood development initiatives.
Massive recruitment among exogamous families is presently underway at many, if not all, of the French-language school boards across Canada.
Rural communities were exogamous, patrilocal, and patriarchal, with newly married women subservient in the families of their husbands until they had borne sons.
Generally speaking, the exogamous nature of marriages in traditional Central African society was a potent factor in the spread of peace.
Thus, a caste is endogamous, but all the kin-based units below it are exogamous and follow rigid rules about which clans or lineages are allowed to inter-marry.
Geneviève and Doug Clark are an exogamous couple-or a bilingual family, as Geneviève prefers to call it.
Proposal 7: That support cells be created to help, among others, endogamous and exogamous families.
For a good many mixed or exogamous families, providing for the learning of French and passing on of French culture is first and foremost a question of means.
Generally, unilineal descent groups were exogamous.
That situation meant that indigenous communities felt the need to rally round other symbols, such as the Church or a patron saint, and to be inward-looking, with exogamous relationships a rarity.
By the time their children-in particular those from exogamous or allophone families-are of school age, they have two, if not three, languages under their belts.
There are more exogamous than endogamous marriages.
Thus, the status report provided in the document will strengthen the optimal development of young children, whether they belong to an endogamous, exogamous, ethnocultural, rural or urban family.
To foster additive bilingualism in minority environments, French needs to be the primary language used at school and Francophone parents from both exogamous and endogamous families need to speak French at home.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Billavas, like the bants, have a number of exogamous septs running in the female line.
He inherits his exogamous class, say Bukhara, from his father, and he must marry a woman of Class Kumara.
So palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.
These are called exogamous groups or clans, and their name among the higher castes is gotra.
The same community cannot be 'both exogamous and endogamous,' as some suppose.
These communities may or may not be exogamous, they may even be endogamous.
The prohibition of marriage within the gotra or exogamous section bars the union of persons related solely through males.
This led to changes in the exogamous relations of totem groups.
If totem kins there be in the phratries, these totem kins are exogamous.
The exogamous 'phratries' of these tribes are eagle-hawk and Crow.
They recognize no endogamous sub-divisions, but have exogamous septs.
Among the Rongunis, the title is practically an exogamous sept.
These totemic clans are exogamous, like those of Mayne's Tsimshians.
Each of these is further sub-divided into clans, which are exogamous.
In Raigarh the Bhuiyas appear to have no exogamous divisions.
The equivalent Anumolla occurs as an exogamous sept of Kamma.
Among the Vallambans these karais are exogamous, and run in the male line.
Jetti further occurs as the name of an exogamous sept of the Kavarais.
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