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
Thus the opinions regarding this matter are not only tinged by elements of primitive culture, but by elements of individual disposition.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
"We think the Lani were survivors of that catastrophe—and with their primitive culture they were unable to reach the other land masses," Alexander shrugged.
From The Lani People by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)
