Status Updates From Modern Clan Politics: The P...

"The more the realm of the "traditional" appeared to be discrete and closed, the greater the contrast with the "modern" appeared. The result was a stark traditional-modern dichotomy that presented the possible trajectories for local groups as dichotomous: either they would accept, succumb, or assimilate to the overwhelming pressures of state-driven modernization, or they would resist the same, to some uncertain fate.