Modern primitive

Roland Loomis, also known by his chosen name Fakir Musafar, was one of the founders of the modern primitive movement.[http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/5541 Gauntlet – decorating the Modern Primitive] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070520193215/http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/5541 |date=2007-05-20 }} The 1989 RE/Search book Modern Primitives is considered as one of the first studies on of the concept of modern primitivism.

Modern primitives identify with a connection between what they see as "the primitive" and authenticity; "in opposition to the corruptions of mainstream society".{{cite book |last1=Benson |first1=Susan|editor-first1=Caplan|editor-last1=Jane|editor-link=Jane Caplan|title=Written on the body: the tattoo in European and American history|article=Inscriptions of the self: reflections on tattooing and piercing in contemporary Euro-America|date=2000|publisher=Reaktion Books Ltd. |location=London: United Kingdom |isbn=978-0691057231 |pages=234–254 |edition=Jane Caplan }}

Modern primitives may have a loose set of beliefs about their way of life, including

• Modification of the body in order to sculpt their self-image.
• Activities which reject society at large. Exploring the self is a personal statement, which society rejects.
• Resisting what they see as colonialism, and identification with anti-colonial struggles.{{cite journal |last1=Rosenblatt |first1=David |title=The Antisocial Skin: Structure, Resistance, and 'Modern Primitive' Adornment in the United States. |journal=Cultural Anthropology |date=1997 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=287–334 |doi=10.4135/9781526440211 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.1997.12.3.287/abstract |access-date=16 June 2019|isbn=9781526440211 |url-access=subscription }}

Urban primitivism has been suggested as cultural appropriation and misrepresenting or "bundling" cultures together in a "primitive" setting.{{cite web | url=http://www.howtotalkaboutarthistory.com/uncategorized/art-history-101-primitivism-cultural-appropriation/ | title=Why Primitivism was Cultural Appropriation | date=26 October 2016 | access-date=31 May 2022 | archive-date=25 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025083801/http://www.howtotalkaboutarthistory.com/uncategorized/art-history-101-primitivism-cultural-appropriation/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |last1=Rosenblatt |first1=David |title=The Antisocial Skin: Structure, Resistance, and 'Modern Primitive' Adornment in the United States. |journal=Cultural Anthropology |date=1997 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=287–334 |doi=10.4135/9781526440211 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.1997.12.3.287/abstract |access-date=16 June 2019|isbn=9781526440211 |url-access=subscription }} These have been debated, with adherents believing that these criticisms are based largely on the views of Roland Loomis rather than the culture as a whole.{{cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272274147 |doi=10.1386/ejac.30.2.99_1|title=The myths of modern primitivism |year=2011 |last1=Lodder |first1=Matt |journal=European Journal of American Culture |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=99–111 }}

• Noble savage
• Paleolithic diet

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| last = Vale

| first = V.

| author-link = V. Vale

| author2 = Andrea Juno

| title = Modern Primitives

| publisher = RE/Search

| year = 1989

| isbn =978-0-940642-14-0 | title-link = Modern Primitives (book)

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• {{cite book

| last = Pitts

| first = Victoria L.

| title = In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

| publisher = Palgrave Macmillan

| year = 2003

| isbn = 978-1-4039-7943-8

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/infleshculturalp2003pitt

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