Primitivism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19010686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satadru Sen (City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1309 |
| OpenAlex | W4243311920 |
| ISBN | 9780470657225 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Primitivism is a multilayered aspect of modernity, rooted in the histories of anthropology, colonialism, and whiteness. At the most basic level, it has to do with articulating and isolating but also incorporating and consuming what is savage, obsolete, and dying. It normalizes the elimination of “native” people and societies and, simultaneously, produces the wholeness of a modern subjectivity that values the primitive
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Modernity · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · History · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |