About 10 results for ‘Primitive culture’
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Primitive culture
In older anthropology texts and discussions, the term "primitive culture" is used to refer to a society that is believed to lack cultural, technological, or economic sophistication/development. For instance, a culture that lacks a written language might be considered less culturally sophisticated than cultures with writing systems; or a hunter-gatherer society might be considered less "developed" than an industrial capitalist society. The term was used by many Western authors, such as anthropologists and historians to describe the indigenous cultures in their foreign colonies, and in distant uncolonized lands. Describing a culture as "primitive" is considered by many to be offensive. Use of the term, especially in academic settings, has thus diminished. The indigenous activist organisation Survival International is campaigning for the complete abolition of the term, and has succeeded in persuading some newspapers to stop using it. It is also the title of a major work by Edward Burnett Tylor, in which he defines religion as "animism" which, in turn, he defines by reference to contemporary indigenous and other religious data as "the belief in spirits". Another defining characteristic of primitive cultures is a greater amount of leisure time than in more complex societies.
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Femme sauvage tenant un écu à la tête de lion
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- Portrayed subject:
- Breastfeeding
- Child
- Lion
- Primitive culture
- Sitting
- Vegetation
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- Date:
- 15th century
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Homme sauvage tenant un écu au lévrier
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Leaf
- Man
- Primitive culture
- Sighthound
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- Date:
- 15th century
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Homme sauvage tenant un écu au lévrier
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- Portrayed subject:
- Man
- Primitive culture
- Sighthound
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- Date:
- 15th century
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Homme sauvage tenant un écu à la tête de cerf
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Leaf
- Man
- Primitive culture
- Red deer
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- Date:
- 15th century
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Figure de ballet : Un Sauvage
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Folk dance
- Man
- Primitive culture
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Saltimbanques & scènes de foire (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Entertainment
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- Portrayed subject:
- Arrow
- Bass drum
- Bow and arrow
- Bull
- Card game
- Caricature
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Homme sauvage tenant un écu (Sur le petit registre du cat...
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- Field(s):
- Middle Ages
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Man
- Nudity
- Primitive culture
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- Date:
- 15th century
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- Artist(s):
- Francisco Goya
Cannibales dépeçant leurs victimes
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Thésée vainqueur du taureau de Marathon
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Altar
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Apollo
- Arch
- Axe
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Une torchère
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candlestick
- Chest
- Fleur-de-lis
- Man
- Nudity
- Primitive culture
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- Date:
- 16th century
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