Sentence examples for primitive practice from inspiring English sources

The treatment of mental health was a primitive practice back then.

Pendants are derived from the primitive practice of wearing amulets or talismans around the neck.

The report criticized Unicor's "primitive" practice of manually smashing leaded monitors, which it said exposed workers to toxic chemicals as well as potential injuries.

One anthropological explanation for the close association of ancient Games with funerals is a primitive practice according to which, when someone was killed, a fight to the death would be held between the suspected killer and another man; with the irrefutable logic of superstition, the loser was then judged to have been the guilty party.

The use of such terms and ideas render swidden agriculture not only a primitive practice, but articulate with the treatment of swidden cultivators as primitive peoples a concept that can be turned to advantage in some cases (Tsing 1999), but generally works against an understanding of swidden cultivation on its own terms (Li 1999; Scott 1998).

Tells about bush society and some primitive practices.

What anthropologists would not ask who these people were with their primitive, barbaric practices?

Historically, religion, both ancient and modern, embraces both primitive religious practices and the aesthetically and symbolically refined worship of the more technologically progressive and literate human communities.

Dr. Palmer, who specializes in waterway restoration, described the barriers that she and other scientists faced in trying to question North Korean scientists, and field trips on which she witnessed relatively primitive agricultural practices.

Informal and primitive recycling practices need to be significantly reduced or eliminated.

Toronto was no place for a Roman Catholic, a Chinese immigrant, a servant or a child in 1895, when the concept of human rights was more primitive than the practice of dentistry.