| 释义 |
retribalize, v.|riːˈtraɪbəlaɪz|
[f. re- + tribal a. + -ize. Cf. detribalize v.]
trans. To restore (a person or society) to a tribal state; to encourage the tribal instincts and habits of. So reˈtribalized ppl. a.; reˈtribalizing vbl. n.
1963Economist 7 Sept. 805/2 A sprinkling of retribalised black statelets. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxiii. 229 It was easy for the retribalized Nazi to feel superior to the American consumer. Ibid. xxiv. 236 We have begun retribalizing with the same painful groping with which a preliterate society begins to read and write. Ibid. xxx. 304 The power of radio to retribalize mankind, its almost instant reversal of individualism into collectivism, Fascist or Marxist, has gone unnoticed. 1967Guardian 9 Sept. 6/3 The effect of television as such is to retribalise and deliteratise mankind. 1969A. Cohen Custom & Politics in Urban Africa i. 29 As the migrant becomes more settled, by being drawn into active participation in the social life of the Quarter—economically, politically, morally, and ritually—he becomes increasingly more ‘retribalized’. |