exogamy


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Synonyms for exogamy

marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

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In Oreo, however, Ross's depiction of the protagonist as inheritor of both black and white Jewish ethnic heritage accentuates that the perceived incompatibility relies upon a blindness to the reality of interracial Jewish exogamy, a topic unaddressed in Davis Jr.'s conversion narrative.
Profil demolinguistique des enfants des ayants droit francophones selon la structure familiale [Freeing the hidden potential of exogamy. Demolinguistic profile of francophone right- holders' children according to family structure].
In the extensive literature on the economics of marriage, little attention has been given to understanding endogamy (in which marriage partners come from the same local community) and exogamy (in which the partners come from different communities).
(10.) The tension between exogamy and incest/close endogamies can be found across multiple genres of Jewish American cultural productions.
EXOGAMY A Marrying only outside one's group B Total banishment C Secondary form of osmosis who am I?
Changing social norms: Common property, bride wealth and clan exogamy. Current Anthropology, vol.
She then presents data exploring language shift from Italian to English by Italian migrants in Australia, pointing out that region, generation, age, exogamy, and gender all affect the shift.
The commonalities between Flaiano's novel and the account from Numbers are many, including the reiteration of the name Miriam/ Mariam as well as a textual interrogation of the cultural taboos against exogamy. In both of these stories set in present day Ethiopia, the trope of leprosy focuses the narrative discussion on intolerance and its proper desert, combining the issues of intolerance, justice, and, ultimately, of the transformation of one's own identity, at first presumed to be set and unchangeable, into that of the other.
The authors proposed that one possible reason for this discrepancy is the higher rate of racial exogamy among Filipino women.