primitive tribe
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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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tribe
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/traɪb/us/traɪb/
a group of people, often of related families, who live together, sharing the same language, culture, and history, especially those who do not live in towns ...
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I remember reading somewhere an anthropologist writing on aprimitivetribewho put people to death when their resources were of a very poor character.
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When living in aprimitivetribemeant more food and more safety, it was an obvious choice to join, and contribute to, or collaborate with, the tribe.
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Since he can do nothing to help the baby he leaves it where he found it and is later found by theprimitivetribethat abandoned the baby.
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An immense weight of prejudice has to be overcome among these primitive tribes.
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What are you going to do about the primitive tribes?
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In primitive tribes, when young males reach that stage, there is an extensive tribal ritual, with tests and all the rest of it.
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History tells us that all societies from primitive tribes to sophisticated nations always take strong action to check perversion.
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In the olden days, primitive tribes used to turn their old people into the cold to die.
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It is true that although primitive tribes have combined for war they have never managed to combine for peace.
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They need to have some philosophy of life which will enable them to stand the strain of that process more adequately than will the religion of primitive tribes.
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That is the kind of thinking which has already resulted in the destruction of many primitive tribes of human beings.
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Yor returns to the primitive tribes on the mainland.
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Myths of a giant rainbow-serpent are common among primitive tribes inhabiting the tropics.
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The blood feud has certain similarities to the ritualized warfare found in many primitive tribes.
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Even by the period of the novels, certain bloodlines still produce sentient females, as do some, if not most, primitive tribes.
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Being captured by neighbouring tribes was a relatively common event for women in human history, if anything like the recent history of the few remaining primitive tribes.
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His findings suggested that men and women of primitive tribes differ in their dream life, these differences possibly contributing an empirical basis to our theoretical constructs of masculinity and femininity.
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The megaliths are not of much architectural significance, but they speak of the custom of the primitive tribes erecting memorials at sites of mortuary rites.
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