[lbo-talk] tribes, was Re: Speaking of female candidates...

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Sep 7 14:21:35 PDT 2008


On Sep 7, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


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> Sure, but the issue is the connotations of the English word. Why
> tribe and not nation? What's the difference?
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tribe: common descent from a (usually mythical) ancestor. nation: territorial agglomeration.


> --- On Sun, 9/7/08, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> The Roman term "tribune" is cognate to
>> "tribe." The constituent
>> political units of Athenian democracy and of the Roman
>> republic were
>> the tribes. Western culture is irremediably marked by the
>>
>> contributions of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Iroquois
>>
>> confederacy, the most democratic political institution ever
>> to exist
>> on this benighted continent, was composed of five (later
>> six) tribes.
>>
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