Word: tribalization
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...other books dealt chiefly with ancient Athens. "Hellenistic Athens" (1911), "Greek Imperialism" (1912), several chapters of the Cambridge Ancient History, "The Treasures of Athens" (1931), and "Athenian Tribal Cycles (1932) are among his most significant works...
...came in hundreds. Chief Gatamuki's band headed for a wooded hill overlooking the village of Gathuini. They were forbidden by the truce agreement to enter the Kikuyu reserve, but assembling after dark, Gatamuki's men pitched their camp about 350 yards inside the tribal boundary. They were spotted there by elements of the 7th Battalion, King's African Rifles, commanded by Brigadier John Reginald...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
Since then, Albert has been able to sell everything he paints. The example of his fat income-which under tribal custom he must share not only with his wife and six children but with hordes of other rela- tives-caused a whole colony of aboriginal artists to spring up at Hermannsburg. Today Hermannsburg has 18 painters (including three of Namatjira's. sons), who collectively gross nearly $8,000 a year. Some of Namatjira's followers, many critics think, are doing better work than the master, whom they regard as too slick. One of the best is Edwin Pareroultja...
Under the approving eye of Franco's High Commissioner Rafael Garcia Valifio, 430 tribal leaders - pashas, caids and ule-mas - signed and proclaimed a fiery petition pledging "unconditional allegiance" to Spanish policy, denouncing France and soliciting Franco's help in seceding from French Morocco. Garcia Valino thereupon rose and blandly castigated French "colonialism." and pledged his and Franco's weight to the Moroccan cause...