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

To them have been attributed not only the primitive culture of Central America and Mexico, but of lands far to the north, and even the earthworks of the Ohio Valley.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

We are acquainted with some of the laws which mark the development of primitive culture, but we have paid no attention to the influences which mark the existence of survivals in culture.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence