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primitive society

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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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society
noun
uk /səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/ us /səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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It is not only the effect, but the goal: war is at once the cause of and the means to a sought-after effect and end, the segmentation of primitivesociety.
Clastres argued, however, that the primitivesociety compensates for this danger: the warrior ethos implants what amounts to a death-wish in those who are animated by it.
In primitivesociety so was marked the accession to hunter and man from childhood.
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At the time that that concept was formulated we lived in a primitivesociety.
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The history of law has always been that in primitivesociety law tends to be and must be flexible.
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It is fair to say that they are symptomatic of a rather more primitivesociety than ours is today.
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It is true that some of them live in a still primitivesociety, but things are moving quickly.
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But everyone should understand how complicated it is to impose a new system of land tenure on what is, after all, a primitivesociety.
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We cannot expect a very poor and primitivesociety to do much to help the unfortunate.
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For that reason, it is a very easy form of tax for a primitivesociety.
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Even more, it is a key difference between an advanced and a primitivesociety.
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That is an anarchic and primitivesociety.
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I do not think that anyone would suggest that it is permissible to use methods in a primitivesociety which must not be used in an advanced society.
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In the more primitivesociety you would probably have to hire a private army to keep your funds intact, and that would certainly be a charge on the funds.
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But the question that emerges is: was that violence an essentially traumatic experience, a travail, through which that primitivesociety had to go to find its new pattern?
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It paints an admiring picture of a primitivesociety that will not repeat the mistakes of civilization.
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I'd like my work to be an anthropological artifact from an extinct, primitivesociety.
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This was a considerable advance on the view, commonplace at that time that taboos were emblematic of neurotic trends in primitivesociety.
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Hence, a child goes through all the steps from primitivesociety to modern society.
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Primitivesociety, like many savage societies of our own time, was probably strictly matriarchal.
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