Ethnogamy

Quick meaning: Ethnogamy is a noun meaning Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.

Meaning

Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.

Example Sentences

The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.

I have chosen ethnogamy as one of the dependent variables because the choice of a marriage mate is one of the measures of cultural perseverance:

For convenience, this plane and the mode of marriage defining it may, in special allusion to the correlative race-sense, be styled ethnogamy; and the more systematic characters of this mode and plane of marriage may be outlined briefly:

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include endogamy, exogamy, exogeny, heterogamy, ethnopoiesis, ethnodemography.

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