Primitive society

Primitive Culture is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. According to Tylor a defining characteristic of primitive cultures is a greater amount of leisure time than in more complex societies. Primitive Culture is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. According to Tylor a defining characteristic of primitive cultures is a greater amount of leisure time than in more complex societies. In 1953, John Carothers, a colonial psychiatrist who had previously worked at Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, published a report for the World Health Organization claiming and quoting several authors that compared African psychology to that of children, to immaturity compared the African mind to a European brain that had undergone a lobotomy. They were caricatures of primitive people at peace with nature, dwelling in a fascinating world of hallucinations and witch doctors.