0 having been made to stop following the traditional customs or social structure of a tribe (= a social group of people with the same language, customs, and history, and often a recognized leader):
In this way the natives were steadily detribalized, abandoning allegiance to their own customs and beliefs.
Apartheid emerged as a way to control "masses of detribalised Natives" and their labour.
The "detribalised" Mr Obasanjo finds abhorrent the idea that Nigeria should split into a confederation of ethnic regions.
All Kolams, unless totally detribalized, return to their ancestral Ayak shrine for the performance of important rites.
They opposed this change, since they felt it would lead to white ownership of large tracts of land on which detribalized and demoralized natives would subsist as wage slaves.
