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Arranged endogamous marriage within the kinship units was the preferred pattern in that period, but this pattern has changed somewhat.
In 1968, 25 percent of urban marriages, 31 percent of rural marriages, and 51 percent of tribal marriages were reported as endogamous.
All these strata tend to be endogamous or, in the south, observe the marital rule of hypergamy.
These are cultural differences and they cause biological differences because cultural groups are endogamous.
Craftsmen like the smiths are divided into endogamous casts and live at the fringe of Dogon society.
The penalties for transgressing endogamous restrictions have varied greatly among cultures and have ranged from death to mild disapproval.
As of 1991, 77 percent of married Brazilians were in racially endogamous unions, showing a clear preference for marriage partners of their own color.
The people are divided into endogamous clans, and in modern times there were still strong traces of a political organization under clan chiefs.
In the past, villages were endogamous, somewhat matrifocal units.
Marriage is strictly clan endogamous, and although sibling marriage is forbidden, marriage between cousins is encouraged.
Proposal 7: That support cells be created to help, among others, endogamous and exogamous families.
Marriage was endogamous and was viewed not as a couple's exclusive affair, but as an entire family's concern.
Francophone family includes endogamous and immigrant urban and rural families with at least one Francophone parent.
However, this Act still constitutes the legal framework governing the situation of endogamous or transnational couples.
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.
Their basic economic and political unit is the kinship group, which contains several endogamous subdivisions.
People's own concerns are first and foremost with their relatively endogamous settlements and their patrilineal exogamous clans.
Everywhere castes have traditionally been endogamous.
The Shudra varna includes a wide spectrum of endogamous status groups with dominant, landowning groups at one end of the scale and near-untouchables at the other.
In traditional Kurdish society, marriage was generally endogamous.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There are apparently three endogamous sub-divisions, named Godomalia, Odisi, and Bejjo.
Of the six divisions referred to, the Udayas and Toreyas are endogamous, but intermarriage is permissible between the other four.
There are two endogamous sub-divisions in the Bestha caste, namely the Telaga and the Parigirti.
They are apparently divided into three endogamous sections, named Holodia, Bolodia, and khadi.
These divisions were once endogamous, but this distinction has now disappeared.
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 evidence does not show, however, that it was endogamous.
They have two endogamous sub-divisions, called Kodi and Peringala.
They recognize no endogamous sub-divisions, but have exogamous septs.
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