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

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

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