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I use this comparison too but I’m curious are the Scott clans more like family groups? Do you intermarry within the same clan?

• dghughes 5y ago
  From what I understand a clan would be even more tight-knit not intermarry but marry into the clan. A woman from clan Campbell marries a man in clan MacDonald she would now be a part of MacDonald. A tribe or band could bring in someone not necessarily by marriage alone. It's a common thing all over the world whatever name it is given; clan, tribe, band, caste. There are probably some differences between all those terms but an anthropologist would have to explain it not me.