primitive

adventurer

is those people whose forms of life are simple and uniform, and the contents and form of whose culture are meager and intellectually inconsistent.

Primitives are those people whose forms of life are simple and uniform, and the contents and form of whose culture are meager and intellectually inconsistent' (Boas 1938: 197). 'He goes on to point out that different peoples are primitive or advanced in different resects. Australian Aborigines are poor in material culture but have a complex social structure. The Indians of California do superb artistic work, but their culture lacks complexity in other ways. He likens such differences to those between poor and rich in America nad Europe. He adds that no people are untouched by foreign influences, and concludes that to assign a whole culture to a uniform category of 'primitive' or 'civilized' is pointless.' (101) History and Theory in Anthropology By Alan Barnard )

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primitive