Sounding Decolonial Futures: Decentering Ethnomusicology's Colonialist Legacies

Term: Primitive

A colonialist term that was used in the past, including in Ethnology, Anthropology, and Ethnomusicology, to refer to groups of people, primarily Indigenous peoples, who were considered “less evolved.” The term retained currency until the mid-twentieth century, despite its racist and ethnocentric associations. 

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