Tribalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan R Trencher (George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeost051.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4242822863 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Tribalism was historically defined by scholars to refer to African and North and South American indigenous populations focused on customs and beliefs transmitted and enacted in groups (tribes) that share kinship, a way of life, property held in common, and an absence of recognized political authority beyond the group. Such tribes borrow ideas and practices from each other, as well as adopting members of other groups. British and South African social anthropologists cum sociologists, working in Africa, focused on aspects of everyday life, including ethnicity and stratification, while American anthropologists primarily studied patterns of kinship and social relationships among indigenous populations in the Americas. By the latter half of the 1960s, “tribalism” had been so inconsistently used and misapplied in scholarly work that American anthropologists called for the term to be abandoned. Simultaneously, indigenous populations themselves used tribalism to refer to “the people,” that is, groups with shared kinship, religion, property, and worldview. Tribalism and “retribalization” reemerged in the 1990s to refer to groups with shared ideologies, including religious, political, and social views, seen as incommensurate with those of nongroup members
Biology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Ideology · Indigenous · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Tribalism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |