Sentence examples for primitive ethnic from inspiring English sources

It is hard not to see the events as bordering on genocide, though some historians simply remark that when an "advanced" economic system meets a "primitive" ethnic and social structure, there will be casualties.

The subject lost its appeal during the psychopolitical upheavals of the last century, but in recent years, the European and New York art markets have named and promoted what they call Outsider Art, including primitive, ethnic, folk, street and other marginal idioms.

Reasonably priced meteorites, minerals, optical toys, seashells, exotic jewelry, primitive artworks, ethnic musical instruments and animal skulls, skeletons and taxidermy also abound.

It wasn't that they didn't get along with their Christian neighbors, but there was some primitive yearning for ethnic glue that they found hard to satisfy.

In Los Angeles, Price hunted for what he called "ethnic" and "primitive" art at a shop, on La Cienega Boulevard, owned by a collector named Ralph Altman.

The three find an ethnic isolated primitive Tamil group, ruled by a Chola king.

And they miss a key point, which is that there is nothing primitive about voting for your ethnic own.

Native patterns worked on a bodice or a motif of hands from primitive cave drawings had an ethnic nobility.

Even in Indonesia, the Java-centric federal bureaucrats in the capital, Jakarta, have tended to think of those islands' peoples (who represent some 300 ethnic groups) as primitive and their cultures as something of an embarrassment.

Affected by this, Chinese ethnology soon showed the same tendency, particularly in the fields of "primitive social history", "economic and cultural types" and "ethnic definition and identification".

In many parts of the world there have been tribal arts, some of which are sometimes bracketed with the "primitive" in a general category of ethnic art and are sometimes considered as folk art.