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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 might be considered less developed than an industrial capitalist society. While becoming less politically correct, some Western authors, such as anthropologists and historians, used it to describe pre-industrial indigenous cultures. Historically, assigning "primitive" to other people has been used to justify conquering them. It is also the title of a book 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 belief in spirits. Another defining characteristic of primitive cultures is a greater amount of leisure time than in more complex societies. ==See also== * Anarcho-primitivism * Civilization * Ethnology * Negrito * Neolithic * Noble savage * Paleolithic * Pierre Clastres * Political correctness * Primitive communism * Primitivism * Shifting cultivation * Uncontacted peoples * White man's burden 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Primitive culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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