Exogamy: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	out-marriage

Topics

incest Endogamy Marriage Henogamy same-sex marriage Interracial marriage in the United States Covenant marriage Why Have So Many World Leaders Married Their Cousins?adultery Banns of marriage harem Separation Group marriage

Key People

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John Ferguson McLennan

Scottish lawyer and ethnologist