Word: tribalized
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More Sophisticated. The Bantus, merchants were glad to hear, spend freely and earmark less than one dollar in 57 for savings and life insurance. Yet even the educated hang on to a few old tribal customs. Selling washing machines to Bantus is practically impossible because washing by hand is still considered as essential a wifely duty as childbearing. Bantus are rabid users of patent medicines, considering them a stimulant to sexual vigor; in one 1,000-home survey, Mkele found 300 different kinds of patent medicine...
...answer to doleful pleas from his sons and relations, King Saud cautiously returned home last month. A few tribal delegations came to Riyadh to pay their respects. One, led by Deputy Premier Prince Khalid, another of Saud's 39 brothers, handed the King an ultimatum. Tactfully but plainly, the chieftains warned him not to interfere with Feisal or make any attempt again to wield power, at the risk of dethronement. They also demanded instant banishment of Saud's personal aide, Eid ben Salem, who rose from palace chauffeur to royal entrepreneur and became vastly rich in the process...
...expedition produced material for two books, one by Peter Matthiessen and another -- soon to be published -- by Gardner. But the major product of the expedition is a two-hour documentary of tribal warfare and revenge entitled Dead Birds. Gardner is now completing the editing and sound track...
...became Lady Inchcape, but Baba and Pearl were toasted in every pub when they were married: Baba to a wrestler, Pearl to a bandleader. Stockpiling Heads. Their father had little time for frivolity. A shrewd, self-effacing administrator, Sir Charles traveled to the far corners of his land persuading tribal chiefs to end their wars and forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside...
...Negroes are intrinsically incapable of understanding in another an idea which is always assumed, (never demonstrated), the notion of an Afro-American Negro unity which trancends all other ties extremely questionable, to say the least. African Negroes have come from a social environment which is still by and large tribal and industrially undeveloped, and a political situation in which absolute colonial rule and rigid racial paternalism were until recently completely predominant. Their sympathies often tend to lie with Marxist notions of forced economic development, and with the conception of racially founded nationalist hegemony. The situation of American Negroes is quite...