In older anthropology texts and discussions, the term `primitive culture` refers to a society believed to lack cultural, technological, or economic sophistication or 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.....
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(from the article `Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett`) ...`The past,` he wrote, `is continually needed to explain the present, and the whole to explain the part.` Tylor`s fame, however, is based chiefly ... ...nonracial, noninstinctual basis of the greater part of what one calls civilization: its values, techniques, ideas in...
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in the lexicon of early anthropologists, any of numerous societies characterized by features that may include lack of a written language, relative ... [24 related articles]
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