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
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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
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The facts concerning primitive culture which are to be cited in this paper will show that the case is just the other way.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by Fiske, John
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)