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Endogamy (n.) creeps in when a group takes its totem too literally: once it pictures itself as a separate natural species, it can no longer give its sisters and daughters to other groups.
Endogamy (n.) can hide behind a smokescreen of reciprocity: beneath moieties that trade wives and bury each other's dead, a Bororo village was three groups each marrying within itself, prisoners of a pride concealed even from themselves.