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Gender roles
Gender roles described in the context of primitive culture usually described as typical male and female gender roles. The females of the society stay in the home or community to care for children, moderate farming, and food gathering, while the men do hard labor and leave to hunt prey. The women in these cultures have submissive and passive roles in their society. This has led anthropologists early in the field to interpret these roles as evolutionarily based. That separate societal and sexual roles in genders are how humans evolved and developed society. Though there are cultures that carry the connotation of “primitive”  that also share a male gender hierarchy, there are also societies that disprove this hypothesis. The well examined Chambri peoples of Papua New Guinea are an example of a culture where men take the more submissive role in the society.

Sexual abuse of privative cultures
Many primitive cultures were seen less developed and not privileged to the rights of more industrialized societies. Because of this, the act of rape by colonizing and imperialist societies are apparent between differing cultures. During the British settlement of Australia, the local aborigines were victims of rape and forced prostitution by colonists.