tribal society

collocation in English

meaningsoftribalandsociety

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tribal
adjective
uk
/ˈtraɪ.bəl/us
/ˈtraɪ.bəl/
relating to ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition oftribalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Atribalsocietyconfined by repression and colonial domination has all the more reason to seek and celebrate the excitement of dancing with death.
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Competition for leadership had always been a prominent feature oftribalsociety.
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One might ask, why does the state bother to try to break down social barriers through an indiscriminate welfare policy if it ultimately aims at establishing atribalsociety?
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Firstly, it is in many respects a very ancienttribalsociety, which we cannot catapult into the 21st century in one fell swoop.
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Within atribalsocietyit is the children who are hurt.
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Practically everything in atribalsocietyis held in common, and the individual counts for very little.
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Intribalsocietyevery man and woman has a fixed and certain place which changes as he or she grows older.
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I am not interested in atribalsociety.
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Above all, we should consider the small farmer as an individual, not as part of a collective or a traditionaltribalsociety.
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This is quite common in atribalsociety, but they are very chary about giving titles to land.
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In atribalsociety, all except the purely personal property, such as clothes and things like that, often belong to the tribe.
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Yet we are demanding that an ancienttribalsocietyshould change overnight.
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What we are seeing and facing in all these territories are the problems of the transition from atribalsocietyto what we hope will be a modern democratic society.
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Intribalsociety, loyalty is extended to close kin and other members of the tribe.
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It has a population of about 948,000, which is multi-ethnic and mostly atribalsociety.
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Leadership is personalcharismaticand used for special purposes only intribalsociety.
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Thetribalsocietyin a pre-varna era followed a system of clan kinship as tribal social structures are based on totemic clans.
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The social structure changed from being an acephalous ortribalsocietyinto a more chiefdom-oriented society.
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As a result, the previoustribalsocietydrastically changed.
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