primitiveness

These scholars argued that the "primitiveness" of Indigenous agriculture was reflected in the technologies they used.

“I’m interested in the primitiveness of rocks, of materials that have always been there, that will always be the same, that show the patina of time.”

He describes a society characterized by “widespread inhumanity, primitiveness and barbarism” and afflicted, owing to the shocks of industrialization and urbanization, “by terrible, and destabilizing, social problems.”

Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival.

Because it called out their blackness, their primitiveness.