Exogamous group is a section of society within which marriages are prohibited. A marriage within an exogamous group is regarded as incestuous.
Examples of exogamous groups are:
- Gotras and Clans in the castes in India.
- "Fis" among the Albanians
- Individuals with the same last name in China, or Chinese surname, Chinese clan
Famous quotes containing the word group:
“...Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)