Word: tribalized
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...that reason the Harvard volunteers went to reservations where they were invited by tribal councils and took part in programs the tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped...
...began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than to see one woman perform "fragments" of tribal dances, fragments unnecessarily brief...
Contemporary dance in America is nervously proud of its nouveau status as a performing art, while tribal dances naturally emphasize somewhat more their symbolic purpose, or their practical aim of enhancing war or celebration. But when these dances come to the stage, performers should attend to what looks good, and not only to what feels good. Every dance, but especially a simple one, depends for its effect on subtlety that is perceptible. But at the same time, a dance should hold more subtlety than the audience can quite see. The tension of discovering more, of penetrating the arcane, creates...
...northern Bariba tribesmen, who are on the warpath to win Maga's complete reinstatement. Though massive French aid helped the new nations in the area to achieve a measure of economic progress and political stability, Dahomey and the other former French colonies are now threatened with tribal and sectional wars that could spread disorder through much of West Africa...
...still thinking, as I strolled with my host in the rear of the band back towards Harvard Square (quite the best way to avoid the traffic) that what I had witnessed was but a manifestation of what I had seen a hundred times before during 7 years in tribal Africa. Perhaps, I mused, there is something to be said for tribalism after all: perhaps the urge to "belong," to be at one with a greater whole, to sink individuality into tradition and tradition into loyalty, is too strong for any of us to resist