She covers Griselda: from ambiguoius fictive character to the embodiment of various ideals, the socio-political implications of social exogamy , and the state-as-household metaphor and tyranny in the patient Griselda myth: between political criticism and literary convention as propaganda.

However, her novel provides keen insight into post-civil rights era Jewish white racial formation; contemplates black anti-Semitism, cultural appropriation, and labor relations between blacks and Jews in the entertainment industry; and engages Jewish exogamy without relying on the trope of the white blonde shiksa.

Moreover, like with Isaac's marriage to a Cuban man, Manny's marriage to a woman from the English-speaking Caribbean reproduces their parents' exogamy . Throughout each one of these case studies, exogamy does not appear to be an exception for our subjects as members of intra-Latinx, Dominican-Puerto Rican, families in New York City.

Others are; kutengeserana (economic cooperation), chipari chematunhu akasiyana (extended matrimonial alliances), chipari (polygyny), inter-clan marriage ( exogamy ), kupika (oath-taking) and kupira (sacrifices).

For Nguni people, clan exogamy rules and the principle of patrilocality would have rendered exclusive occupation of an area impossible, as every married woman would have had to be part of a clan other than that of her husband.

Although the francophone community in New Brunswick holds equal status to the anglophone community under the law, it still faces assimilation, exogamy (francophone/ non-francophone couples), and other sociolinguistic factors similar to other minority communities in Canada (Bernard, 1997; Landry & Rousselle, 2003; Leblanc, 2009).

So although there is a clear condemnation of exogamy or "out-marriage," there is also a very blurry line as to what constitutes "out-marriage."

Landed groups of this kind generally have characteristics that are rooted in, if hardly identical to, past practice --for example, descent group exogamy , expansive recognition of collateral relatives, distinctive classificatory use of kin terms, and gendered authority exercised by respected family elders (Sutton 2003:226-227).

Rather than cautioning that exogamy may signal the demise of the Jewish people, Wolf's novel pushes for acceptance of intermarriage as a barometer of social equality and a testament to the sacredness of love between soul mates.