单词 | hypogamy |
释义 | hypogamyn. Cultural Anthropology. The marriage of a woman into a lower caste or into a tribe of lower standing than her own. Cf. hypergamy n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank > with social inferior misalliance1738 left-handed marriage1760 mésalliance1782 hypogamy1946 1946 J. H. Hutton Caste in India v. 48 Hypogamy, on the other hand, is associated with a bride-price. 1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory i. i. 60 This pattern, which we may call caste hypogamy, is not institutionalized, but it is persistent. 1956 R. Pieris Sinhalese Social Organization v. i. 177 A very rare case of hypogamy, that is, women marrying below their caste. 1957 New Statesman 4 May 566/3 The fictions of D. H. Lawrence have several examples of the lady marrying downwards (hypogamy, in anthropological vocabulary). Derivatives hyˈpogamous adj. pertaining or relating to hypogamy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [adjective] > marriage to social inferior left-handed1653 left hand1687 morganatic1728 morganic1854 morganatical1855 hypogamous1946 1946 J. H. Hutton Caste in India v. 48 Hypogamous marriages..are pratiloma, against the grain, that is, against what is natural or proper, since the status of the bride is in this case higher than that of the bridegroom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1946 |
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