Definition of detribalize in English:
detribalize
(British detribalise)
verb diːˈtrʌɪb(ə)lʌɪzdēˈtrībəˌlīz
[with object]usually as adjective detribalized1Remove (someone) from a traditional tribal social structure.
使(某人)脱离传统的部落社会结构
the 250,000 Australian Aborigines include many detribalized urban people
Example sentencesExamples
- Kenyatta insists that only a detribalized African will marry an uncircumcised woman, and his account of the ritual stresses its high cultural valence in traditional Gikuyu culture.
- However, the assaults on whites that winter were made by a small gang of detribalized blacks led by a man named Musquito, who was not defending his tribal lands.
- Until very recently, the main thrust of federal policy was to break up the extended family, the clan structure, to detribalize and assimilate Indian populations.
- His life proved that he was a highly detribalised African.
- It is less practised among those Gikuyu who have been Europeanised or detribalised.
- 1.1 Remove a traditional tribal social structure from (a culture).
使(某人)脱离传统的部落社会结构
Example sentencesExamples
- Tribal societies, unlike detribalized, fragmented cultures with their stress on individualist values, are extremely austere morally.
- The supposed goal was to detribalize the economy and culture and drop Indians into the "free" market where private enterprise would assimilate them.