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hypergamy Anthrop.|haɪˈpɜːgəmɪ|
[f. hyper- + -gamy.]
A term first used by W. Coldstream, to denote the custom which forbids the marriage of a woman into a group of lower standing than her own; also transf., of any marriage with a partner of higher social standing. Hence hyˈpergamous a., pertaining or relating to hypergamy.
1883D. C. J. Ibbetson Rep. Census Panjáb 17 Feb. 1881 I. 356 They [sc. the social rules]..may be referred to two laws, which I shall call the laws of isogamy and hypergamy... Mr. Coldstream writes from Hushyárpur:.. For 12 years past certain classes of Khatris..have been agitating to extend the principle of isogamy, and to free themselves from the rule of contracting hypergamous alliances for their daughters. 1903Risley & Gait Rep. Census India 1901 §701 Hypergamy, or ‘marrying up’ is the custom which..compels [a woman] to marry in a group equal or superior in rank. A hypergamous division, therefore, is a group forming part of a series governed by the foregoing rule. 1909E. S. Hartland Primitive Paternity I. 266 The Brahmans everywhere follow a custom known as hypergamy, by which a man may marry or have sexual relations with a woman of lower rank, but no man of lower rank may marry into a caste above his own. 1921Nature 13 Jan. 646/1 Dr. Rivers said that the term ‘hypergamy’ had been used loosely by both Sir Herbert Risley and Dr. W. Crooke to denote marriage between groups which differ in rank, but for the sake of clearness the term should be confined to those instances in which there was a characteristic difference between the marriage rules for the two sexes. 1929Encycl. Brit. IV. 979/2 The ancient hypergamous rule which allowed a woman to be married to a man of higher class. 1951N. & Q. Anthropol. (ed. 6) ii. iii. 94 Sometimes there is a hypergamous system in which a socially inferior sub-caste can obtain wives from another and higher sub-caste on payment. 1957New Statesman 4 May 566/2 The curse which is ruining, in fantasy if not in their own lives, these brilliant young men of working-class origin and welfare-state opportunity is what anthropologists have dubbed male hypergamy. 1966Ibid. 15 Apr. 548/2 Hypergamous young men claim that the district [sc. Chelsea] offers more available classy girls than other art-school areas. Ibid. 2 Dec. 832/1 English women have long been able to go in for hypergamy. |