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1930 Times 8 Oct. 10/1 There are 590,000 urban and other detribalized blacks who cannot possibly be retribalized.

1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. viii. 333 The uprooted and anonymous city dweller [in Hitler's Germany] could be effectively re-tribalized..because he was such an easy and willing victim to all forms of progressivist myths.

1986 W. S. Simmons Spirit of New Eng. Tribes ii. 31 In 1934 the Narragansett retribalized under Rhode Island law as a private, nonprofit corporation.

2005 I. J. Ukpanah Long Road to Freedom 5 The state increased its effort to expand and institutionalize segregation and retribalize the Africans.

1959 M. McLuhan Let. 16 May (1987) 254 We still use..the phonetic alphabet as our principal means of detribalizing backward countries, but we have not sufficiently noticed that Electronic Technology can retribalize ours.

1967 Guardian 9 Sept. 6/3 The effect of television as such is to retribalise and deliteratise mankind.

1996 Wired Oct. 149/1 Later, when radio, telegraph, telephone, and television came in, they ‘retribalized’ everything by being externalized, by filling up the cosmos again.

1948 Times 9 Sept. 3/3 They would be encouraged to become ‘retribalized’ and look upon native reserves as their native home.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxiii. 229 It was easy for the retribalized Nazi to feel superior to the American consumer.

2002 Contemp. Pacific (Nexis) 14 341 It appears likely that urban as well as retribalized Maori organizations..are being drawn more firmly into the net of restructured capital.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxiv. 236 We have begun retribalizing with the same painful groping with which a preliterate society begins to read and write.

2005 C. A. Oakley Keeping Circle iii. 80 The Indians in eastern North Carolina were in the process of retribalizing.