Primitive culture | Origins, Characteristics & Examples
网页primitive culture, in the lexicon of early anthropologists, any of numerous societies characterized by features that may include lack of a written language, relative isolation, small population, relatively simple social institutions and technology, and a generally slow rate of sociocultural change.
Hunter‑Gatherers ‑ Definitions, Facts & Societies | HISTORY
网页2018年1月5日 · From African hominins of 2 million years ago to modern-day Homo sapiens, the evolution of humans can be traced through what the hunter-gatherers left behind—tools and settlements that teach us...
Primitive Society - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页A 'primitive society' refers to a small, technically and socially 'simple' community that is held together by the relations of reproduction. It is characterized by a society of clones, where individuals are bound by the rules of descent and marriage.
Primitive culture - Herding, Nomadic, Pastoralism | Britannica
网页Primitive culture - Herding, Nomadic, Pastoralism: Herding societies are in many respects the direct opposite of forest horticulturalists.
Primitive culture - Horticulture, Societies, Subsistence
网页Primitive culture - Horticulture, Societies, Subsistence: Primitive agriculture is called horticulture by anthropologists rather than farming because it is carried on like simple gardening, supplementary to hunting and gathering.
Primitive Society - Encyclopedia.com
网页2018年5月23日 · *primitive society* A term used to refer both to the earliest societies and to recent examples with simple technology. It fell into disfavour as a description of any society of recent centuries, since none are relics of an earlier evolutionary stage, and each has its own history and development.
Primitive society - Oxford Reference
网页6 天之前 · primitive society. A term used to refer both to the earliest societies and to recent examples with simple technology. It fell into disfavour as a description of any society of recent centuries, since none are relics of an earlier evolutionary stage, and each has its own history and development.
Primitive culture - New World Encyclopedia
网页The term primitive culture was used in older anthropology texts and discussions of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century by European explorers and anthropologists to describe indigenous societies, particularly those of North, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Oceania.
The reinvention of primitive society : transformations of a myth
网页The Invention of Primitive Society, Adam Kuper's best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since Darwin, has been hugely influential in anthropology and post-colonial studies.
网页Adam Kuper. The Invention of Primitive Society; Transformations of an Illusion. Routledge, London and New York, 1988. The Invention of Primitive Society is a tour de force. Adam Kuper has sifted through the work and biographies of major Victorian anthropologists to provide us with a panoramic view of the terrain
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