Word: tribalized
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...institute began training its first teams of teachers in 1934. Today there are 460 linguists at work inventing written forms for 175 of the 590 tribal tongues they have found in eight Latin American nations...
...Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might sell them out to the white man, finally settled on a minor chieftain (original name: Gaston Mushidi), who was invested in impressive rites that raised him to the status...
...accord with early tribal belief that a serpent, the Lunda's most sacred creature, had a head at each end and was both male and female, the new Mwata Yambo's final approval came from the senior chief, Kanampumbe, and the senior chieftainess, known as the Ruwej. Then the chosen one was dragged to a hut and surrounded by villagers spitting filthy insults at him-to point up the fact that he was not yet divine. At last, on a sacred mountain 150 miles from Musongo, the Mwata Yambo was installed. From the gnarled hands of the Ruwej...
Groveling Subjects. Mwata Yambo XXIV had been a progressive sort who encouraged tribal children to attend school and urged males to work instead of loafing while wives labored. He spoke French, got along well with Europeans. His successor displays no such interest in 20th century manners. He is suspicious of whites, speaks only Lunda and a little Swahili...
Sweet Talk & Styleplus. In this curiously tribal world Bill was a natural leader. He could hurl wet corncobs at the neighboring kids with greater accuracy than either of his brothers; he could ride a horse bareback as no other Faulkner could; he could invent tales with such surpassing guile that for one whole winter he sweet-talked a schoolmate into slopping the hogs for him-in return for which service Bill entertained him with stories of madness and murder...