detribalization
- n the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living
- n the decline or termination of tribal organization
- Perhaps nothing is more poignant in Africa today than the mental and spiritual effects of detribalization, a process that began when white missionaries undercut the tribal .
- Some Africans argue that school curriculums should be changed ("Why study the industrial revolution when our problem is detribalization?"), along with college admissions .
- Rapid urbanization has hastened the process of detribalization, but this has created an entirely new set of problems.