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"Understanding a primitive society" 1964, American Philosophical Quarterly I, pp. 307–324 "Ceasing to Exist" Proceedings of the British Academy 68, 1982 (1983) "Certainty and Authority".
The so-called primitive society, or more appropriately, the primitive societies, probably span by far the longest period in the history of mankind to date, more than three million years, while other forms of society have existed and continue to exist for only a relatively short period in comparison (less than 1 percent of the period).
Hallpike has researched and published on a wide range of subjects, including Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea; stateless societies; tribal warfare; systems of seniority based on age; the symbolism of hair style; [4] sociocultural evolution; cultural materialism; Piaget, developmental psychology and primitive thought; [5] [6] the evolution of morality; [7] the relevance of Darwinism and ...
The book challenges the cultural relativism position of some earlier anthropologists. Edgerton enumerates examples of primitive cultures and practices, showing that they have neither been completely happy nor environmentally sustainable. He argues that the vision of primal, naturally adaptive, perfect societies, is a myth. [1]
Robert Harry Lowie (born Robert Heinrich Löwe; June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist.An expert on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology and has been described as "one of the key figures in the history of anthropology".
In Western philosophy, Primitivism proposes that the people of a primitive society possess a morality and an ethics that are superior to the urban value system of civilized people. [ 1 ] In European art, the aesthetics of primitivism included techniques, motifs, and styles copied from the arts of Asian, African, and Australasian peoples ...
The belief of primitive communism as based on Morgan's work is inaccurate [6] due to Morgan's misunderstandings of Haudenosaunee society and his since-disproven theory of social evolution. [24] Subsequent and more accurate research has focused on hunter-gatherer societies and aspects of such societies in relation to land ownership , communal ...
The earlier (and more primitive) military society has the goal of conquest and defense, is centralised, economically self-sufficient, collectivistic, puts the good of a group over the good of an individual, uses compulsion, force and repression, and rewards loyalty, obedience and discipline. [40]