primitive community

I In more primitive communities, said my grandfather, women were 1 required to wrap their heads.

"But that's how superstitions grow up in a primitive community.

This way was through treaties, contracts and exchanges, which are the basis of primitive communities.

Except for possible remote and primitive communities, all modern societies use price systems to allocate resources.

It seems to be generally the case in primitive communities that the women, when they get beyond a certain age, shrink to the size of children.

The civilized and primitive communities are criticized or glorified, respectively.

The bird used to be eaten by primitive communities in this zone of Oaxaca.

Like all members of primitive communities which are small numerically, theNambikwara never bury their dead.

Anthropologists have commented on the fact that women in primitive communities rarely experience menstrual problems.

Sir Robert Donald, writing between the two world wars, described them as: 'a somewhat primitive community.

People of these primitive communities have been exploited by moneylenders and petty government officials of many years.

Elementary tilling and farming methods were first applied by primitive communities along the fertile high ground of the lake country during the Stone age.

It was a very primitive community, Sammy thought, observing the place as they approached through a meadow dotted with sheep and great gray standing stones.

Bākhen: ritual invocation songs of a primitive community.

Thus may peace and prosperity undermine the safety of the most primitive community even as it does that of the most cultured.

A primitive community, I'm told.

There would be great areas, entire islands, without even a token settlement save for the blacks who would huddle together in primitive communities.

Engels expanded Morgan's hypothesis that economic factors caused the transformation of primitive community into a class-divided society.

--The gospels are invaluable as evidence of the corruption that was already persistent within the primitive community.

In the outside world, Tomi encounters a primitive community living in freedom, and is confronted with shocking truths about the world he left behind.

The Hill Kharias are a most primitive community, depending upon forest resources such as collection of honey, edible roots, herbs and fruits.

Instead of viewing his task as that of a missionary to a "primitive community", Hoggart seeks to encourage the development of what is "already there".

Robert of Curzon envisaged the reform of society and the Church in terms of a return to the primitive community of the apostles.

This primitive community of fowlers and fishermen was the least integrated of British island peoples, one that had never risen above subsistence living or seen a telephone.

At one level, their visions are almost identical: they visualize the disintegration of a primitive community under the impact of a new faith or an alien value-system.