A "primitive" reader featuring essays on cinema as stone-carving, Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation and private enclosure, primitive architecture built for YouTube, primitive LARPing, guerrilla welfare and natural farming, NASA’s land survival training, how to “read” primitive, and Ishi—“the last known member of the Yahi people” employed as a museum janitor by Ursula K. Le Guin’s father, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, in addition to facsimile copies of texts from A Natural History of Vacant Lots, Michael Taussig, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, survivalist message boards, publications about DIY shelters, and more.