Meanings
- uncountableEndogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.
1977, Karigoudar Ishwaran, Family Kinship and Community: A Study of Dutch Canadians: a Developmental Approach, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, page 1492 more examples
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:
1898, W. J. McGee, The Seri Indians, Government Printing Office, page 284I have chosen ethnogamy as one of the dependent variables because the choice of a marriage mate is one of the measures of cultural perseverance:
2007, Gaby Semaan, "Arab Americans Unveil the Building Blocks in the Construction of Our Cultural Identity," Ph.D. Thesis, December 2007, pg. 56 (PDF)
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