retribalize

Etymology

From re- + tribalize.

retribalize means to make tribal again; to take back to the condition of a tribe. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

RETRIBALIZE — [Verb] To return a group or society to a tribal condition, reinstating its specific structures of identity and organization. Formed within English from the prefix re- (“again”) and the verb tribalize (“to make tribal”). Unlike “detribalize,” which dissolves kinship into the anonymous mass, or “assimilate,” which subsumes difference into a dominant whole, “retribalize” describes a deliberate, often defiant, turn inward. It is the smell of a traditional dye boiling after generations of store-bought cloth, the heat of a communal fire re-lit on land nearly lost, and the digital re-knitting of fragmented clans—a conscious undoing of dispersal to seek the warmth of a smaller, older hearth.

verb

To make tribal again; to take back to the condition of a tribe.