ethnogamy

English

Etymology

ethno- +‎ -gamy

Noun

ethnogamy (uncountable)

1. Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
   • 1898, W. J. McGee, The Seri Indians, Government Printing Office, page 284:

     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:

   • 1977, Karigoudar Ishwaran, Family Kinship and Community: A Study of Dutch Canadians: a Developmental Approach, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, page 149:

     The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.

   • 2007, Gaby Semaan, "Arab Americans Unveil the Building Blocks in the Construction of Our Cultural Identity," Ph.D. Thesis, December 2007, pg. 56 (PDF):

     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:

Derived terms

• ethnogamic