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How to use exogamy in a sentence

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Male exogamy was slightly higher than female exogamy for the same period and occurred most frequently among third-generation Mexican Americans.
Social disapproval of ethnic exogamy is lessening, though the government unofficially discourages it.
These clans maintained strict exogamy, so wives may be brought in from elsewhere.
Social mechanisms like marriage and exogamy ensured that individual bands, tribes, or clans operated within systems that extended over vast distances.
Surname exogamy, or outmarriage, is still strictly observed: a Li man may not marry a Li woman.
Clan members intermarried with each other, although clan exogamy was formerly the rule.
In some cases, the rules of exogamy may also specify the outside group into which an individual must marry.
Communities and school stakeholders have already started developing strategies to exploit the potential that exogamy offers.
Figure 3 illustrates the strong inverse linear association between language continuity and exogamy.
This work is even more important now with the new demographic resulting from exogamy.
At the symposium, the author explained the consequences of exogamy and proposed ways to address this problem.
The movement of Anglophones and Francophones within Canada may add some diversity to communities, just as exogamy could.
A language area can result from widespread bilingualism, perhaps because of exogamy, and absence of sharp sociolinguistic division.
In short, the tendencies to regional endogamy and patrilectal exogamy exist in practice, if not in law.
The authors proposed that one possible reason for this discrepancy is the higher rate of racial exogamy among Filipino women.
A study by Xing reveals that Yi has the highest percentage of ethnic exogamy in Kunming, Yunnan.
This paper uses interethnic marriage, outmarriage, and exogamy synonymously.
According to Emmanuel Todd the relatively high exogamy among French Algerians can be explained by the colonial link between France and Algeria.
The subsequent processes of exogamy or mixed marriage included contagion and imitation, military conquest and migration, particularly from regions that were soon populated towards the north of Europe and the Mediterranean.
The meeting also touched on issues such as assimilation, exogamy, and the fair distribution of government funding to official language minority communities, including women's organizations.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is in this case exogamy in relation to the clan and endogamy in relation to the tribe.
They have the same complicated arrangement of exogamy and hypergamy as the Khatris, and will take food from that caste.
Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.
Limited exogamy with direct maternal or paternal descent, accordingly, means a reapproach to endogamy.
What is the relation of endogamy and exogamy to isolation, and to the establishment of a successful stock or race?
When the custom of exogamy arose it would naturally attach to the clan as the social unit.
The Nilotic Kavirondo incline to exogamy, endeavouring always to marry outside their clan.
Andrew Lang declared himself in agreement with this explanation of exogamy.
This filiation establishes the uterine relationship and, united to exogamy, prevents marriage between nearest relatives.
See the authorities cited by Frazer in Totemism and exogamy.
When capture disappeared, the exogamy to which it gave rise remained.
Even in such cases we find transitions to the next form of exogamy.
This represents the exogamy which is associated with the totem.
Next, how, among the magical societies, was exogamy introduced?
Had there never been any totem names, exogamy might never have arisen.
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