1/ Within political science, sociology, or anthropology, tribalism alludes to something technical that isn't defined w.r.t. Native Americans. It is a sociocomplexity classification, roughly discretized by Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, and States. https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/985657017569370112 …
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Tribalism as an analogy works well -- especially during transition periods towards chiefdoms consequent to scarcity -- because physical space affords the same shape of cognition. But...that may not be the common meaning. And, it's really hard to compress.
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Not to get super pedantic here, lol, but this reversed it—the hierarchies induced scarcity not the other way around :) . That said there are plenty of other ideas (cliques, in groups, cognitive dissonance, halo effects, empathy w authority etc which capture the key idea).
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Right but that’s not constitutive of a tribe it’s constitute of in group/out group and/or kin network dynamics of which tribes are subset (so are families & churches), but it imports the negative connotations of tribes to do the rhetorical work
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For me, the leverage of tribes is the geographical isolation inducing sharply bounded groups. But, you're right, families and churches afford similar dynamics. In any case, for American public discourse, tribes signals Native American (and a negative connotation).
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