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nontribally en · ADV

Etymology

From non- + tribally.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a manner that is not tribal.
    • Villages are of several different kinds depending upon the prevailing pattern of occupation and whether they are tribally or nontribally organized. 1959, George Arthur Lipsky, Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture, volume 4, page 61:
    • Unions developed out of African miners' attempts to channel their grievances through nontribally based organizations, reflecting their growing consciousness of class and recognition of the weakness of mine-imposed types of organization based on rural models. 2001, Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology, page 168:
    • Therefore, while nontribally identified Indians represent an interesting emergent American Indian ethnicity about which I will say more in subsequent chapters, such individuals do not appear to account for much of the recent Indian population growth. 1997, Joane Nagel, American Indian ethnic renewal, page 104: