detribalized
adjective mainly US (UK usually detribalise) uk/ˌdiːˈtraɪ.bəl.aɪzd/ us/ˌdiːˈtraɪ.bəl.aɪzd/
(被迫)脱离部落的;(被迫)消除部落风俗习惯的
having been made to stop following the traditional customs or social structure of a tribe (= a social group of people with the same language, customs, and history, and often a recognized leader)
In this way the natives were steadily detribalized, abandoning allegiance to their own customs and beliefs. 这样一来,原住民逐渐去部落化,放弃了对自己习俗和信仰的忠诚。
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- They opposed this change, since they felt it would lead to white ownership of large tracts of land on which detribalized and demoralized natives would subsist as wage slaves.
- All Kolams, unless totally detribalized, return to their ancestral Ayak shrine for the performance of important rites.
- The "detribalised" Mr Obasanjo finds abhorrent the idea that Nigeria should split into a confederation of ethnic regions.
- Apartheid emerged as a way to control "masses of detribalised Natives" and their labour.