The practice was originally motivated not by hygienic considerations but by ideas entertained by primitive peoples concerning human nature and destiny.
Therefore, primitive religions primarily concern themselves with the ancestral cult.
Criminal punishment cannot contribute to those appropriate ends: it reflects a primitive, backward-looking concern with retributive justice, whereas we should rather be seeking a forward-looking restorative or reparative justice.
Other critiques addressed both theories' androcentrism, their exclusive concern with "primitive" cultures, and their deficiencies in the analysis of residence and other aspects of kinship.
Last week, the Federation of American Scientists, a private group in Washington that promotes arms control, released an analysis of Space Imaging photographs that disclosed a secret North Korean missile base, setting off a battle among experts over whether the launching site for long-range missiles is a serious threat or too primitive to be of concern.
Together with the parallel work by Eusebius of Caesarea, George's work constitutes the prime instrument for interpreting Christian chronography concerning the primitive church.
There is a marked emphasis upon training for citizenship, because primitive people are highly concerned with the growth of individuals as tribal members and the thorough comprehension of their way of life during passage from prepuberty to postpuberty.
In Britain in particular social anthropologists came to regard themselves as comparative sociologists, but the assumption persisted that anthropologists were primarily concerned with "primitive" peoples, and in practice evolutionary ways of thinking may often be discerned below the surface of functionalist argument that represents itself as ahistorical.
The United States is concerned that Al Qaeda is trying to obtain at least a primitive radioactive weapon and has concerns about the security of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program, the officials said.
He succeeded in finding a path between the opposing dogmas of hi-tech and brutalism which these two figures came to represent, distilling instead a poetics of construction from Prouvé and a concern for the primitive from Le Corbusier.
