Tribe - Wikipedia The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology
TRIBE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of TRIBE is a community composed chiefly of numerous families, clans, or generations who have a shared ancestry, culture, and language —often used in the capitalized names of specific tribes
TRIBE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Tribe definition: any group of people, typically a subdivision of a nation or an ethnic group, that is united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, shared customs and traditions, recognition of the same leader or leaders, etc ; a group of related clans
Tribe | Indigenous Societies, Hunter-Gatherers Nomadic Groups . . . tribe, in anthropology, a notional form of human social organization based on a set of smaller groups (known as bands), having temporary or permanent political integration, and defined by traditions of common descent, language, culture, and ideology
Tribe | Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology In the nineteenth century, the term tribe was woven into the theories of primitive society governed by the principles of ‘kinship’ proposed by the emerging social sciences, including the anthropology of Morgan and the sociology of Durkheim
Tribe - New World Encyclopedia A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states, though some modern theorists hold that "contemporary" tribes can only be understood in terms of their relationship to states
tribe - Wiktionary, the free dictionary tribe (plural tribes) (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes)