Meaning of ethnogamy | Babel Free
Definitions
Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
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:”
“The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.”
“I have chosen ethnogamy as one of the dependent variables because the choice of a marriage mate is one of the measures of cultural perseverance:”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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