See also:ENDOGAMY (Gr. EvSov, within, and y6.µos, See also:marriage)
, See also:marriage within the tribe or community, the See also:term adopted to See also:express the See also:custom compelling those of a tribe to marry among themselves
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See also:Endogamy was probably characteristic of the very See also:early stages of social organization (see See also:FAMILY), and is to-See also:day found only among races See also:low in the See also:scale of See also:civilization
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As a custom it is believed to have been preceded in most lands by the far more See also:general See also:rule of See also:Exogamy (q.v.)
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See also:Lord See also:Avebury (Origin of Civilisation, p
.
154) points out that " there is not the opposition between exogamy and endogamy which Mr McLennan supposed." Some races which are endogamous as regards the tribe are exogamous as regards the gens
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Thus the Abors, Kochs, Hos and other peoples of See also:India, are forbidden to marry out of the tribe; but the tribe itself is divided into " keelis " or clans, and no See also:man is allowed to take as wife a girl of his own " keeli." Endogamy must have in most cases arisen from racial See also:pride, and a contempt, either well or See also:ill founded, for the surrounding peoples
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Among the See also:Ahtena of See also:Alaska, though the tribes are extremely militant and constantly at See also:war, the captured See also:women are never made wives, but are used as slaves
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Endogamy also prevails among tribes of Central See also:America
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With the Yerkalas of See also:southern India a custom prevails by which the first two daughters of a family may be claimed by the maternal See also:uncle as wives for his sons
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The value of a wife is fixed at twenty pagodas (a 16th-See also:century See also:Indian See also:coin See also:equivalent to about five shillings), and should the uncle forgo his claim he is entitled to See also:share in the See also:price paid for his nieces
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Among some of the See also:Karen tribes marriages between near relatives are usual
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The Douignaks, a See also:branch of the Chukmas, seem to have practised endogamy; and they " abandoned the See also:parent See also:stem during the chiefship of Janubrix See also:Khan about 1782
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The See also:reason of this split was a disagreement on the subject of marriages
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The See also:chief passed an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that the Douignaks should intermarry with the tribe in general
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This was contrary to an See also:ancient custom and caused discontent and eventually a break in the tribe " (Lewin's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill Tracts of See also:Chittagong, p
.
65)
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This is interesting as being one of the few cases in which See also:evidence of a See also:change in this respect is available
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The Kalangs of See also:Java are endogamous, and every man must first prove his See also:common descent before he can enter a family
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The Manchu See also:Tatars prohibit those who have the same family names from marrying
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Among the See also:Bedouins " a man has an exclusive right to the See also:hand of his See also:cousin." See also:Hottentots seldom marry out of their own See also:kraal, and See also:David See also:Livingstone quotes other examples
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Endogamy seems to have existed in the See also:Sandwich Islands and in New See also:Zealand
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A community of Javans near See also:Surabaya, on the Teugger Hills, numbering about 1200 persons, distributed in about See also:forty villages, and still following the ancient See also:Hindu See also:religion, is endogamous
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See also:Good examples of what biologists See also:call " in-and-in breeding " are to be found in various fishing villages in See also:Great See also:Britain, such as Itchinferry, near See also:Southampton, See also:Portland See also:Island, See also:Bentham in See also:Yorkshire, Mousehole and See also:Newlyn in Mountsbay, See also:Cornwall, Boulmer near See also:Alnwick (where almost all the inhabitants are called See also:Stephenson, See also:Stanton or See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart), Burnmouth, See also:Ross and (to some extent) See also:Eyemouth in See also:Berwickshire, Boyndie in See also:Banffshire, Rathen in See also:Aberdeenshire, Buckhaven in Fifeshire, Portmahomack and Balnabruach in Eastern Ross.383
In See also:France may be mentioned the See also:commune of Batz, near Le Broisic in See also:Loire-Inferieur, many of the central cantons of Bretagne, and the singular society called Foreatines—supposed to be of Irish descent—living between St See also:Arnaud and See also:Bourges
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Many other See also:European examples might be mentioned, such as the Marans of See also:Auvergne, a See also:race of See also:Spanish converted See also:Jews accused of introducing syphilis into France; the Burins and Sermoyers, chiefly See also:cattle-breeders, scattered over the See also:department of See also:Ain and especially in the See also:arrondissement of Bourg-en-See also:Bresse; the Vaqueros, shepherds in the See also:Asturias Mountains; and the Jewish Chuetas of See also:Majorca
.
See See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Malcolm Sproat's Scenes and Studies of See also:Savage See also:Life; Westermarck's See also:History of Human Marriage (1894) ; Lord Avebury's Origin of Civilisation (1902) ; J
.
F
.
McLennan's See also:Primitive Marriage (1865)
.
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