The Baswate Tribe Although the Baswate Tribe’s five institutions are important to them, the institutions of economics and religion are the focus of the tribe. Everything that is done in the tribe relies around the idea of survival and gods. All the other institutions of politics, religion, family, and education come secondary. The Baswate are a canible tribe, and their are many reasons for this. One reason is that their religion demands this way of life. The other reason is that sources of nutrition are often hard to come by in the deserts of Africa, and human flesh is often their only source of protein. Small sand bugs and insects are the main source of the tribes food