Meanings
- not comparableIn a manner that is not tribal.
Villages are of several different kinds depending upon the prevailing pattern of occupation and whether they are tribally or nontribally organized.
1959, George Arthur Lipsky, Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture, volume 4, page 612 more examples
Therefore, while nontribally identified Indians represent an interesting emergent American Indian ethnicity about which I will say more in subsequent chapters, such individuals do not appear to account for much of the recent Indian population growth.
1997, Joane Nagel, American Indian ethnic renewal, page 104Unions developed out of African miners' attempts to channel their grievances through nontribally based organizations, reflecting their growing consciousness of class and recognition of the weakness of mine-imposed types of organization based on rural models.
2001, Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology, page 168
Origin
Cite this entry
nontribally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontribally
“nontribally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontribally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nontribally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nontribally.
Source: nontribally on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.