Exogamy
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
exogamous · exogamy · out-marriage · الزواج الخارجي · marriage by raiding · الاكسوجامي
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The practice, per McLennan's terminology, of taking wives exclusively from beyond a tribal or kin circle.
Under the influence of this habit the practice of ‘exogamy’ was gradually created.
For reasons which I have already given, I have no wish to take sides with Morgan or with McLennan, but it does seem to me that, if further inquiry should disclose the prevalence of an outer ‘endogamous’ as well as an inner ‘exogamous’ circle of consanguinity, it lends some strength to Morgan’s theory of development, which is certainly easier to understand than McLennan’s.
On the one hand, ‘exogamy’ is enforced by law.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The prohibition on marriage inside one's own totem group and the requirement to take spouses from other totems, transliterated into Arabic as al-iksūjāmī.
The people of a totem hold that marrying within the tribe itself is injurious to health, to the point of eating away the bones, and they punish whoever ventures upon it with death or with grievous torment.
(5) That marriage is forbidden among the people of one totem, and the basis of procreation with them is marrying daughters of the people of the other totems (exogamy).
A man marries a woman not of his tribe and of a totem not his own, and the children may be reared upon yet another totem;