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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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.) . 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 . 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 . 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 . Endogamy also prevails among tribes of Central See also:America . 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 . 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 . Among some of the See also:Karen tribes marriages between near relatives are usual . 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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reason of this split was a disagreement on the subject of marriages . The See also:chief passed an See also:order that the Douignaks should intermarry with the tribe in general . This was contrary to an See also:ancient custom and caused discontent and eventually a break in the tribe " (Lewin's See also:Hill Tracts of See also:Chittagong, p . 65) . 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 . 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 . The Manchu See also:Tatars prohibit those who have the same family names from marrying . 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 . Endogamy seems to have existed in the See also:Sandwich Islands and in New See also:Zealand . 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 . 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), 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 . 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 .

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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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