Word: tribalized
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Fear - and the shakiest of tribal alliances - was stronger than annoyance in Week 8 as the splintering-before-our-eyes holdovers of the Ogakor tribe hewed to the party line and said good-bye to the personal trainer...
...There may have been a time when the law did matter in Indonesia, but it's hard to remember that now. Last week, Indonesia's central Kalimantan province reverted to the law of the jungle when indigenous Dayaks, celebrated in tourism brochures for their tribal customs and picturesque, dormitory-style long-houses, went on a coordinated spree of murder against the province's migrant community from the arid island of Madura. And concepts like rule of law began to seem completely irrelevant when the Dayaks, following their traditional custom, began eating the body parts of their victims to gain spiritual...
...similar to those in Irian Jaya? Or was it more like the separatist-incited violence in Aceh? Or was it similar to the bloody religious rivalry between Christians and Muslims in Ambon? When the Dayaks carved out the hearts and heads of their victims, was this the kind of tribal blood sport that would have proliferated in Indonesia had former President Suharto not exerted an iron grip on the nation for most of its history? Are all sorts of mad and destructive behaviors ready to rise now that Indonesia's state structures seem to be collapsing? Or how about this...
...ordered it to give up power. The decision may provoke new ethnic confrontations between indigenous Fijians and the country's large Indian minority. Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said the government would decide how to implement the decision-which "is not going to happen overnight"-in consultation with traditional tribal chiefs. Qarase's civilian government was installed last July after hard-line nationalists led by George Speight ousted Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian Prime Minister. The court said President Ratu Josefa Iloilo must step down by March 15, after reconvening the disbanded Parliament...
...plus decades of observing baboon behavior in Kenya. Sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. Sciencephobes needn't be worried: there's nary a page of neuroendocrinology in the book. A supporting cast of tribal misfits, postcolonial weirdos and marginally psychotic truck drivers will keep you chuckling from start to finish...