Which of the following is NOT a defining feature of tribe?

The correct answer is Food habits.Key Points

• According to anthropologists, a tribe is a group of people living in isolated forests and hills. Their language is different from the language spoken by the mainstream people.
• The major characteristics of tribal societies are as follows: Tribal societies are completely united by kinship bonds.
• Tribal societies have a communitarian basis of landholding.
• the tribe has a definite territory in which its members reside.

Additional Information

• A common dialect, occupying or professing to occupy a common territory and is not usually endogamous though originally it might have been so.
• The term “tribe” originated around the time of the Greek city-states and the early formation of the Roman Empire.
• Kinship ties are bonds between people based upon many factors and which also depend upon the culture in which someone lives. The most common form of kinship is through what is called blood relations. This means people who are related biologically are usually based on descent and parentage.
• The territory is a theoretical and methodological concept that explains and describes the spatial unraveling of social relationships that human beings establish in cultural, social, political, or economic areas; it is an empirical reference, but it also represents a theoretical concept

Thus,  Food habits are NOT a defining feature of tribe.