exogamy

/ek-sog-uh-mee/US // ɛkˈsɒg ə mi //UK // (ɛkˈsɒɡəmɪ) //

外配种,外配制,外配角,外配种法

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.Compare endogamy.
- : Biology. the union of gametes of unrelated parents.

The tribal organization of this period was bound up with an important institution, exogamy, which originated in the totemic age.
Totemic exogamy clearly represents the earliest form of marriage restriction found in custom or law.
This form of exogamy does not appear to occur except where the divisions of the tribe are not more than two in number.
Both forms of exogamy, the unlimited and the limited, observe the same law with respect to the group affiliation of children.
Thus arises a limited exogamy with indirect maternal or paternal descent, as represented in diagram III.