primitive culture

Example Sentences

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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

Although, indeed, these have lost much of their meaning in the lapse of years, yet in many cases they are survivals of primitive culture, and embody the conceptions of the ancestors of the human race.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

In the opinion of Dr Wallis Budge, barley was in Egypt the grain of most primitive culture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various