Word: tribalization
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Back in 1948 Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief-designate of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, married a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. At first the tribal elders were outraged, but later, after tribal council, they accepted Seretse and his white wife. But not Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished...
...Author Hawkes, the "center of gravity of a people in any age" can be found in the way they build. "Neolithic communities hauled megalithic blocks to their communal tombs, Bronze Age men did the same for their temples, the Iron Age Celts amassed materials for their tribal strongholds . . . medieval society sweated for its churches . . . The Victorians moved unprecedented masses of stone for town halls, exchanges . . . factories, and docks...
Before the Mid-East's oil age, the tribal Arabs had a morality and political system which suited their severe lives crudely but comparatively well. The poorest Bedouin could get an audience with the great sheik and a handout from his kitchens. The mistreated slaves could flee to the local ruler, demand protection under the law of the Koran...
Then came the oil companies, bringing industrialization and cities, and breaking down feudal tribal relationships. The outpouring of Western wealth (at the rate of $200 million a year) is destroying old values before new ones can be substituted. Oil money expanded the middle classes; it educated them, and created a class hostile to economic domination by foreigners. Oil money increased the gap between rich & poor, and gave the poor something to covet...
...wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason for removing the baby - against professional advice - was that they wished to take it to their own tribal witch doctor...