... of the Coyolxauhqui process to individual and collective identity (re)formation and develops a theory of “new tribalism”: an innovative, rhizomatic theory of affinity-based identities and a provocative alternative to both assimilation and separatism. She offers a careful, sophisticated critique of narrow nationalisms...

... cosmology ritual spirits warfare tribal fighting ...

... postnationalism Raza studies Latin@ studies identity new tribalism ...

... negative communities violence metaphysics of “home” vitalist nationalism tribalism ...

... without the vital life force of grease. With the increase in tribal fighting, the spirits of deceased warriors roam in ever greater numbers, preventing people from settling and farming on lands where enemies have died, thereby further truncating social flexibility in Porgera. cosmology ritual...

... to obtain wage-paying jobs turn to tribal fighting in order to extort money from groups who receive mining benefits. Porgerans refer to tribal fighting as “working in the life market,” as people with no possibility of wage labor sell the only thing the market demands: their very lives. labor...

... the concept relies for its coherence on long-standing logics of racial genealogy. The apparent recognition of tribal difference on the basis of a shared, trans-tribal Indianness ultimately positions Native peoples as not quite political in ways that facilitate the ongoing assertion of plenary power over...