Tribelet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tribelet is a noun meaning A small tribal society in another part of the world.
Meaning
A small tribal society in another part of the world.
More Meanings
- A small tribe of Native Americans, especially a small independent group of Native California people who shared a language and usually comprised one principal village, or several in close proximity, plus smaller resource-gathering camps and territories.
Example Sentences
The larger tribelets usually had several permanent villages.
Kroeber’s emphasis on the small scale of indigenous California social organizations led him to attach the diminutive "-let" to the anthropologically normative term "tribe".
Tribelet […] defined a political and geographical unit comprising several units, usually including a principal and most powerful central village, tied by relations of kinship.
The second feature, dialectic separateness, of course is an old story for California, but elsewhere in the state each idiom is usually common to a considerable number of tribelets or "village communities."
Word Forms
- tribelets
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tribe, tribespeople, subtribe, undertribe, hilltribe, tribesmanship.
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