primitive culture
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“What glass beads are to the savage, buttons and pockets are to the civilized,” Rudofsky writes, intending no disrespect to primitive culture.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2019
All the same, it was in Tahiti that Gauguin would make the work that opened the way for a later generation of artists to draw connections between "primitive" culture and the most advanced artistic practices.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Trocadéro, they were presented as ageless, unchanging, primitive objects, evidence of an ageless, unchanging, primitive culture.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
In conditions so primitive there can be but a primitive culture.
From African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
A study of animism in primitive culture shows many interesting links between the past and the present in this matter.
From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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