Anthropologists do NOT use the term "primitive" to refer to art because:

a. they cannot agree on a definition for the term.
b. primitive art is a craft, not really an art.
c. it has connotations of inferiority.
d. contemporary societies do not make such art at the present.
e. small-scale societies do not use the term.


c

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