Word: tribalized
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...reading and research committee compiled reading lists on the politics, economy, and tribal cultures of Africa. The group will discuss this material and learn the newest techniques of language instruction in a week of intensive training before the departure on June...
...Stacey, 31, knows the depths and shallows of African politics. As a trained anthropologist (The Hostile Sun), he has a strong sense of what it must be like to live in a primitive society, and also the dangers facing the educated African who defies both Europe and his tribal past. It is this last theme-rather than a sampling of the yeasty brew of independence-that Novelist Stacey has drawn on for this deeply felt and disturbing first novel...
Sierra Leone got its start as a colony in 1787, when an agent of British Anti-slavery Crusader Granville Sharp leased what is now Freetown from a local tribal chief and set it up as a haven for destitute freed slaves from England. The British thoughtfully provided the new settlers with a boatload of white British prostitutes to get the population under way. In 1808 Sierra Leone formally became a British colony, and rule was gradually pushed inland to embrace the indigenous tribes as well. The British discovered diamonds in Sierra Leone's river beds...
...newly-drafted Indian reservation project grew out of the demands of Harvard anthropology students. At the urging of her seminar people, Dorothy Lee, lecturer on Anthropology, contacted the Association on American Indian Affairs which negotiated the jobs with various Indian tribal councils...
Begininng in May, Mrs. Lee will conduct a seminar in Indian tribal history, anthropology and the problems of cultural adaptation. In addition, Stookey saw the possibility of "an intensive fourday orientation right after exams...