Abstract
Why "tribes"? In the anthropological tradition, a tribe was a sociopolitically homogenous and autonomous group. Its members shared patterns of speech, basic cultural characteristics, and a territory. Today the term is universally used and universally undefined. Obviously, there is something in the word that appeals to the imagination: perhaps the idea that we can escape the atomized mass and reconstitute earlier, stronger ties between individuals. In order to understand the formation of online tribal identity, I use the concepts of "boundary" and "field" to analyze economic and political aspects of tribalism in anarcho-primitivist networks
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Electronic Tribes: The Virtual World of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans and Scammers |
| Editors | T.L Adams, S.A Smith |
| Place of Publication | Austin, TX, USA |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Pages | 251-268 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Edition | 2008 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780292793965 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780292717749 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |