tribe

There are no absolute groups of people, defined and delineated once and for all, and to be labelled tribes.

However, this study also shows that tribes were not kept intact but underwent a dramatic change in their function and nature.

Readers will appreciate the thumbnail accounts of tribes and towns and the maps of mountain ranges, plateaus, wadis, and sub-regions with their primary settlements.

The analysis contained 26 species from ten genera in six tribes.

Generally, in this area there was great discontent on the part of the subject tribes who mostly resisted paying tax.

Officials applied heavily the ' martial race ' doctrine to prewar recruitment, and accorded ' martial ' tribes respect beyond that extended to non-martial peoples.

There were also major inter-tribal conflicts, as some group - makhzan tribes - allied with the government to contain subject or rayat tribes.

In this they failed, owing to the fact that there were no discrete tribes.

Unable to earn a living by cultivation or soldiering, these tribes 'reverted' to a life of vagrancy and crime.

Recognising the tribes' intrinsic love of music, missionaries taught them to sing hymns and to understand religious doctrine through the texts of hymns.

Second, it tries to show the complex relationship between individual identification and collective identification, especially the formation of criminal tribes.

There are examples of large gene frequency differences both between and within tribes that are not always easy to explain in terms of historical ethnography.

Despite all these influences the tribes retained much of their own culture and social practice.

A brief description of each of the six tribes follows.

Most dramatic was the effect on nomadic tribes hitherto subjected to only the loosest control by the central authorities.