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单词 detribalize
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Definition of detribalize in English:

detribalize

(British detribalise)
verb diːˈtrʌɪb(ə)lʌɪzdēˈtrībəˌlīz
[with object]usually as adjective detribalized
  • 1Remove (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. 1.1 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.

Derivatives

  • detribalization

  • noun diːtrʌɪb(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    • This brings up the issue of Tom's ‘detribalization.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is also true that detribalization is, as Mahmood Mamdani showed, ‘the mere starting point in the reorganisation of the bifurcated power created by the colonial power’.
      • The main anxiety of British administrators then was the threat of ‘detribalization,’ their word for a perceived social dislocation resulting from urbanization and migration for wage labor.

Definition of detribalize in US English:

detribalize

(British detribalise)
verbdēˈtrībəˌlīz
[with object]usually as adjective detribalized
  • 1Remove (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
    • 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.
    • It is less practised among those Gikuyu who have been Europeanised or detribalised.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • His life proved that he was a highly detribalised African.
    1. 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
      • The supposed goal was to detribalize the economy and culture and drop Indians into the "free" market where private enterprise would assimilate them.
      • Tribal societies, unlike detribalized, fragmented cultures with their stress on individualist values, are extremely austere morally.
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