nontribally
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nontribally (not comparable)
- In a manner that is not tribal.
- 1959, George Arthur Lipsky, Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture, volume 4, page 61:
- Villages are of several different kinds depending upon the prevailing pattern of occupation and whether they are tribally or nontribally organized.
- 1997, Joane Nagel, American Indian ethnic renewal, page 104:
- 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.
- 2001, Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology, page 168:
- 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.