Word: tribalized
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...beyond, the old categories. Every time a Palestinian man, say, marries a Singhalese woman (and such unions are growing more common by the day) and produces a half-Palestinian, half-Singhalese child (living in Paris or London, no doubt), an Israeli or a Tamil is deprived of a tribal enemy. Even the Palestinian or Singhalese grandparents may be eased out of longtime prejudices. Mongrelism--the human equivalent of World Music and "fusion culture"--is the brightest child of fragmentation...
With the "domestication" of women, and their consignment to frequent childbearing, patriarchy was born. The cultural pattern found in so many tribal horticultural societies--including warfare, male domination and polygyny--began to take hold worldwide. By the dawn of "civilization," the venerable female tendencies Hrdy tells us are so essential to successful primate motherhood--ambition, ingenuity and sexual adventurousness--had been redefined as immoral or at least "unnatural...
DIED. JOSEPH BURTON DELACRUZ, 62, former president of the National Congress of American Indians; of a heart attack; in Seattle. An advocate of tribal sovereignty, he battled federal agencies over fishing and timber rights...
Every three days, the group will gather for a "tribal council," at which the castaways will vote to kick a member off the island. When there are only two castaways left, the last seven people kicked off the island will return to vote for the champion, who will walk away with one million dollars (a seemingly magic number in TV game shows these days...
...Joseph and Nereciana found the fields lying fallow, the last few harvests still rotting on the stem. This wave of humanity could have precipitated a disaster had not the new Tutsi government headed by Paul Kagame secured international aid and, even more miraculously, somehow managed to bridge the bloody tribal divide. There were Tutsi reprisals against Hutu, but for the most part the reintegration of Hutu refugees into Rwandan society went smoothly...