Translation for 'hypergamy' from English to Serbian
NOUN   hypergamy | -
етн.соц.
хипергамија {ж}
hypergamy
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Translation for 'hypergamy' from English to Serbian

hypergamy
хипергамија {ж}етн.соц.
Usage Examples English
  • The Khedaval or Khedawal is a Gujarati Brahmin community. Their traditionally served as merchants, money-lenders, pleaders, and government servants. They practice hypergamy.
  • This span of cohabitation led to the introduction of strict endogamy into Rathore folds and hypergamy with Mughals.
  • Although it is certain that in theory hypergamy can cause a shortage of marriageable women in the lowest ranks of a caste and promote upwards social movement from the lower Nair subdivisions, the numbers involved would have been very small.
  • Rajputs practice hypergamy and there is a regional localization in their selection of brides and grooms which extends to a radius of about a hundred miles.
  • This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.

  • Rao and Francine Frankel also agree that the Varna of Marathas remained Shudra, an indication being: "the maratha practice of hypergamy which permitted inter-marriage with rising peasant kunbi lineages, and created a hierarchy of maratha kuls, whose boundaries were flexible enough to incorporate, by the twentieth century, most of the kunbi population".
  • ... Baby One More Time"), appearing on the cover of "Vogue" or hypergamy.
  • Some writers have suggested that monogamy may solve the problems they view as associated with non-monogamy and hypergamy such as inceldom.
  • Today, after generations of racial whitening through hypergamy, a number of Native Americans may have fair skin like White Americans.
  • Age-hypogamy defines a relationship where the woman is the older partner, the opposite of this being age-hypergamy.

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