Caste and Race in India c10.62

c10.62

The people of Borneo nearly always marry within their class, though persons of the middle class sometimes do marry females of the slave class.⁴ In the Carolinas, apart from the slaves, there are two classes, the lower of which is forbidden to touch the higher on pain of death. Further they are not allowed to carry on fishing and seafaring nor to marry with members of the higher class.⁵ Africa provides us with a very interesting case of obligatory endogamy. The smiths often form a social group kept distinct from the rest of the community to which they belong by having to marry within their group.⁶