primitive culture

collocation in English

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primitive
adjective
uk
/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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culture
noun
uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofprimitiveandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is, as we have learned from anthropology, no such thing as an archaicprimitivecultureto which one could return.
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But where people have been for centuries cradled in a moreprimitiveculturethe effect may be something quite different.
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He also went to some of these places to frolic with orangutans and to meet primitive cultures.
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It tells the story of a small group of intellectuals from aprimitivecultureof modified monkey-like humans living in the trees of their jungle world.
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Under the banner of orthodoxy and tradition some intellectuals promote a static ideal, petrified in the hieratic byzantine-muscovite forms of aprimitiveculture, having no evolution whatsoever and nu future.
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Building on the legacy of our ancestors, rock art has expressed the need for the abstracted, the idealized as a reflection ofprimitiveculturein general.
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The artist could sense the magnificence of history while at the same time being perceptually alive to the precipitationprimitivecultureplanted within the national spirit.
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Manchu farms practiced crop rotation frequently withprimitiveculturemethods.
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Storage of grain for instance, has been always a constant in many primitive cultures.
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Designer tribalism praises primitive cultures as being deeply in touch with nature and living in harmony with animals and plants.
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According to this view, more advanced cultures should be more monotheistic, and more primitive cultures should be more polytheistic.
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Another defining characteristic of primitive cultures is a greater amount of leisure time than in more complex societies.
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Many of the intelligent races living on the planets have comparatively primitive cultures.
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Specifically, as all of today's cultures are contemporaries, today's so-called primitive cultures are in no way antecedent to those we consider civilized.
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He also pointed out that the modern view of primitive cultures was simplistic in denying them a history.
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Tylor often likens primitive cultures to children, and sees culture and the mind of humans as progressive.
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The flint and steel method, where hot sparks are struck from a piece of steel or iron onto suitable tinder and fanned into flames, was also used by primitive cultures.
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Primitive cultures turned to witch doctors or shamans to apply magic, herbal mixtures, or folk medicine to rid deranged persons of evil spirits or bizarre behavior, for example.
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At that time, anthropology was rising as a new scientific discipline, separating from the traditional views of primitive cultures that was usually based on religious views.
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