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 famous case of Dr. Martin Luther King's plagiarism reflected aspects of primitive culture carried over to the civilization of illiteracy: there is no authorship; once something becomes public, it is free to be shared.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

In conditions so primitive there can be but a primitive culture.

From African and European Addresses by Roosevelt, Theodore