But the two become lovers, conjoined by "a certain tribal sense of identity, affinities of background and education that weren't supposed to matter anymore, at this leveling moment".
Weeks before the film's release, a few Girijan students protested that the term "Naayak" referred to a certain tribal group, and they demanded a change of the title.
She decided that a big part of the problem was that, in the Koran and in certain tribal cultures, violence is considered a just remedy for female insubordination.
As Mark Mazzetti explained in The Times on Sunday, Pakistan's intelligence service has permitted drone strikes in certain tribal areas under the terms of a secret deal struck with the C.I.A in 2004.
In certain tribal societies, it is perfectly acceptable for male citizens to adorn themselves fancifully.
Certain tribal primitives, it is often said, feel that the camera steals one's essence.
As such, his word was needed to insure the success of certain tribal activities, particularly war, grazing, and the invocation of the gods.
Indeed, they cite many other examples of invented culture, particularly by colonial scholars and explorers who thought they understood how certain tribal patterns should be.
But mothers in traditional societies nurse on demand and spend almost all their time having skin-to-skin contact with their babies, often carrying them in a sling, with the child placed vertically and facing forward, which Diamond suggests might be why babies from certain tribal societies develop neuromotor skills faster than American infants.
While he did not quite succeed with the Nile, he did find that certain tribal slave girls made expert use of "the constrictor vaginae muscles," so that a woman could induce her partner's orgasm "not by wriggling and moving but by tightening and loosing the male member with the muscles of her privities".
Cultures also vary greatly in the extent to which purity and pollution are pervasive concerns: Hinduism, Judaism, and certain tribal groups such as the Lovedu of South Africa or the Yurok of northern California in the United States seem highly pollution-conscious, whereas among other peoples pollution concerns are relatively isolated and occasional.
