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I’m about to submit proposals to clean up the anthropology terms that use “Primitive.”

I already did similar work on https://cataloginglab.org/kb/art-primitive/

H/T to the proposal for Nobel savage stereotype in literature which I used as a pattern: https://cataloginglab.org/kb/noble-savage-noble-savage-in-literature-revision/

There is already a record for Primitive societies, but I had too much here to put in a comment: https://cataloginglab.org/kb/primitive-societies-revision/

Cancel:

Industries, Primitive

Primitive property

Primitive societies

Primitive societies $xFood

Revise AAP:

Change AAP Primitive societies in literature to Primitive man stereotype in literature

Other revisions:

Material culture

Industries

Property

Ethnic food

Anthropology

Prehistoric peoples$xFood

Industries, Prehistoric

Prehistoric peoples

Technological complexity

Pottery, Prehistoric

Cordage, Prehistoric

Matting

Nets

	Type of Proposal	Cancelation note	No. of bib records changed
Industries, Primitive	Cancel	$i This authority record has been deleted because the heading is covered by the subject headings $a Industries $0 sh 85065960	199
Primitive property	Cancel	$i This authority record has been deleted because the heading is covered by the subject headings $aProperty $0 sh 85107496	48
Primitive societies	Cancel	$i This authority record has been deleted because the heading is covered by the subject heading Anthropology $0 sh 85005581 and Prehistoric peoples $0 sh 85080302	827
Primitive societies ǂx Food	Cancel	$i This authority record has been deleted because the heading is covered by the subject headings Ethnic food $0 sh2017004818 and Prehistoric peoples$xFood $0 sh 85080303	8

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=670 \\$aThe savage in literature: representations of ‘primitive’ society in English fiction 1858-1920, Brian V. Street, 1975: $b p.12 (“Popular fiction inevitably distorts the image it presents of ‘primitive’ man. For not only is the image derived from the scientific theories of the age, which have been rejected by science today as themselves distorted, but it is also conditioned by the nature of the medium itself. Such popular literature tended not to create ’rounded’ characters but rather stereotypes.”)

=670 \\$aCannibalising Traditions: Representation and Critique in Heart of Darkness, Anthony Fothergill, 1996 $b p. 102 (“[Conrad’s] erasure of precise location, of historical and ethnic specificity, gives to the native peoples he represents the appearance of the near-mythic. We are offered ‘natural man’ stripped of the accoutrements of social reality: eternally present, at one with nature, offering some kind of less to ‘us’. The translation into ‘primitive man’ becomes all the easier if we are not preoccupied with the specificities of the late nineteenth-century Congo but can let our imaginations freely inscribe the blank page of Otherness.”)

=670 \\$aOrigins of African Stereotypes in British Colonial Novels, Sarah L. Milbury-Steen, 1980$b (“…the image of the African as savage and primitive had long been a stock European opinion. This identification had its literary roots in the eighteenth century when ‘the noble savage’ and ‘the bestial savage’ became conventions of abolitionist and pro-slavery literature respectively.”)

=670 \\$aThe SAGE handbook of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination, 2010$b (in article for Ethnocentrism and group realities: “Despite the fact that ethnocentric group realities are a human universal and may be grounded in evolution … Members of these societies were described as completely different from typical human beings, often as bestial, evil, and lust-ridden… French anthropologist Levy-Bruhl considered members of indigenous tribes to be ‘primitives’ lacking individuality.”)

=952 \\$aLC pattern: Noble savage stereotype in literature

=952 \\$aRecords changed: 12

=952 \\$aProposal made as part of a larger project to clean up the usage of the term “Primitive” in LCSH. The revision here is meant to retain the term but contextualize it as a stereotype in western literature, rather than identifying a group or groups of people as “primitive.” This is consistent with the pattern established with “Noble savage stereotype in literature.”

Other revisions:

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=670 \\$aWork cat.: We eat what?, 2017:$bIntro. (survey of ethnic foods with uncommon ingredients)

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=670 \\$aAcad. Am. encyc., 1994$b(Prehistoric humans)

=670 \\$aAmericana, 1995$b(Prehistoric human beings; Prehistory)

=670 \\$aBritannica Micro.$b(Prehistoric peoples and cultures; Prehistoric archaeology)

=670 \\$aWikipedia, April 4, 2008:$b(cavemen: popular stock character based upon stereotyped concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans or homininans may have looked and behaved; often shown as living in caves; but this stemmed from the ritual paintings found in caves: it is more probable that the caves were religious gathering places or temporary shelter, and not the actual dwellings of the supposed “cavemen”)

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