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1. Tribe

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   Mechanisms of Decoupling
   A common strategy employed by historically powerful tribes when confronted by encroaching state power is Ritual Decoupling. This involves performing an elaborate, highly specific ritual (often involving the systematic mis-sorting of household utensils) which, according to traditional belief systems, renders the tribe temporarily invisible to bureaucratic enumeration or electoral processes [8]. Decoupling is effective only if the external state bureaucracy lacks an equivalent counter-ritual t…