WordNet
n. a society with the social organization of a tribe
Usage examples of "tribal society".
In a tribal society such as Iraq's, there will be hundreds of thousands of people (mostly men) who will want their revenge on this man and his family.
The inveterate individualism of the Kiktu warrior was a constant obstacle, as was their loosely organized tribal society.
Nobody really seemed to know much about them except that they had a primitive hunter-gatherer tribal society.
Clearly it is to the inequitable distribution of resources among your kind related and is by your regressive tribal society exacerbated.
Yet somehow they presented the sensation of a tightly knit and intelligent tribal society.
Zelanas people have occasional squabbles with each other, but they have a tribal society, and that means that all the men pick up their weapons and go out in a disorganized mass to meet the enemy tribe.
This plastic memory seeks to return to its ancient shape, the tribal society.
This woman, with her high status in tribal society, would be interested in these matters.
How could such a tribal society, such a primitive belief system, spring up in a single generation?