Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reforms stirred little controversy until Tombalbaye ordered the revival of an ancient pagan tribal custom known as Yondo, a grueling initiation rite practiced by the Sara tribal groups of southern Chad. The ordeal -Tombalbaye himself underwent it as an adolescent-is known to involve floggings, facial scarring, mock burials, drugging, and ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina, like crawling naked through a nest of termites. Tribesmen who have been raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless...
With only 97 people on that dusty strip of riverbank out in the middle of nowhere--50 roadless miles from the nearest Indians--a definite tribal cohesion, not traditionally characteristic of the Montagnais tribe, has developed by necessity. The problem of existence is a communal problem dealt with in a communal way. Everyone is expected to contribute in such tasks as chopping wood, carrying water, cleaning the houses, cooking, raising children, keeping warm. To the children, there is very little difference between one house and the next, one parent and the next; not because no one cares but rather because...
...moment, one of Pope Paul Vl's usually sedate audiences became a papal powwow. Among a group of 250 Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored...
This provocative idea was conceived by British Surgeons Denis Burkitt* and Neil Painter and Biochemist Alexander Walker in an attempt to explain the differences reported in disease rates between Africans living under tribal conditions and the peoples of Western countries where, they say, there has been a rapid increase in certain illnesses in less than a century...
...Perhaps the perceived need to keep vast military installations for NATO on Greece and the alleged desire to have Cyprus for NATO hardware, too, also forced Kissinger and the U.S. to make only ineffective and belated moves to tie up the Cyprus matter before it inevitably degenerated into tribal warfare...