Definition of "detribalization" []

• The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living. (noun)

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• "The process of detribalization should be arrested."
• "From the 1930s on, Portuguese anthropologists became increasingly preoccupied, on the one hand, with "miscegenation," as sexual unions among Africans, Europeans, and Asians began to transform the demographic landscape and to complicate previous official racial and ethnic categories and, on the other hand, with "detribalization," as mission education and wage labor fostered social and cultural changesabove all in marriage and family relationships and in notions of political identitywhose long-term significance to colonial rule was not lost on European officials or scholars."