Sentence examples for primitive communities from inspiring English sources

"He was convinced it existed in primitive communities that Europe had destroyed: he searched in Brittany, Martinique, Panama, Tahiti..

In the pre-civil-rights South, white men in the more primitive communities were more likely to be punished for misdemeanors than for killing a black man even in plain public view.

His works include Die menschliche Gesellschaft in ihren ethnosoziologischen Grundlagen (5 vol., 1931 35; "Human Society in its Ethnosociological Foundations"), Economics in Primitive Communities (1932), Black and White in East Africa (1935), and Aufbau und Sinn der Völkerwissenschaft (1948; "Structure and Meaning of Popular Knowledge").

Second, the household arose naturally from these primitive communities in order to serve everyday needs.

He added that "the vitality of primitive communities was incomparably greater than that of Semitic, Greek, Roman, etc. societies, and, a fortiori, that of modern capitalist societies".

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.

Studies in anthropology suggest that their forerunners were the campfire circles around which members of a primitive community would gather to participate in tribal rites.

Although material from the same period at Alişar Hüyük seemed to indicate a relatively primitive community of farmers and traders, the tombs of Alaca Hüyük provide evidence of considerable cultural accomplishment and refinement.

(DJN IV.4.2 3, 4.13) While Pufendorf acknowledges a kind of primitive community within family units, under the aegis of the father, he distinguishes this from positive communion in the sense of common ownership.

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He denigrated the Jews who had immigrated to Israel from Arab countries as "savage" and as "a primitive community" that reveres pimps and thieves.