Abstract: Whether in tribal societies or in great empires of ancient civilization, exogamous alliance is always important means to strengthen the statues o f a social group .Taking the eminent Gao-jia clan as a case, this article discusses the issue of cross-group marriage among the famous lineages belonged to the Imperial Household Department .The authors make a textual research to the official records, in comparing with rare edition copies of Genealogy of Gao-jia Clan , put in order the historical facts concerning to this descent group, and then intricate the complex kinship relations both in written text and in anthropological diagrams.

摘要： 无论是在部落社会还是古代文明帝国,外婚联姻都是增强集团社会地位的重要手段。本文以声名显赫的高佳氏为例,探讨了清代内务府世家之间的通婚联姻问题。作者把官方史书与私家族谱进行比勘考证,对高佳氏家族的有关史实作了梳理,并用人类学通行的手法绘制出该家族的世系图和联姻图,以直观地表述其间错综复杂的亲属关系。