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The 16 pages that link to Endogamy, each with the reason it gives.

• Caste system in IndiaRelated: Marriage within caste boundaries has helped reproduce group membership across generations.

• ConsanguinityRelated: Repeated marriage within a group can increase genetic relatedness even without close-kin unions.

• ExogamyCompared with: It imposes the opposite boundary: spouses must come from inside the group.

• JatiRelated: Marriage within the group has often helped maintain jati boundaries.

• Caste systemRelated: Marriage within caste groups has helped maintain inherited boundaries.

• Incest tabooCompared with: It contrasts with exogamous rules that direct marriage outside a kin or social group.

• Arranged marriageRelated: Families may use partner selection to preserve marriage within a community.

• BridewealthRelated: Marriage within a group can influence who negotiates bridewealth and where transfers circulate.

• CasteRelated: Marriage within caste groups helps preserve inherited membership across generations.

• Interracial marriageCompared with: It describes the boundary-maintaining norm that interracial marriage crosses.

• Book of TobitRelated: Tobit urges Tobias to marry within his kin, shaping the marriage plot.

• IncestCompared with: Endogamy permits within-group marriage, while incest rules may prohibit particular close kin unions.

• Levirate marriageRelated: Levirate marriage restricts a widow’s prescribed spouse to her husband’s family, a narrower rule than group endogamy.

• Ethnic religionRelated: In some communities, marriage within the group helps sustain religious and cultural continuity.

• Upper classRelated: Marriage among wealthy families can consolidate assets and social ties.

• Royal intermarriageNarrower topic: Royal intermarriage is a political form of marriage within an elite group.