Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco
... Taboo Taboo is the unspeakable, the silence. It is the expected reaction to women's ambiguity. The general meaning of taboo, 'that which is forbidden', correlates with the Arabic term for taboo haram. A behav- ior (linguistic or ...
Taboo Topics
Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and these are not always well understood.
The Institutionalized Sex Taboo
... taboo . " Moreover , if taboo were a form of magic as de- fined by Dr. Frazer , it would be a somewhat definite and measurable quantity ; whereas the distinguishing characteristic of taboo every- where is the " infinite plus of ...
The Function of Social Taboo in Education ...
... taboo , and no harm came to the person , its hold might be loosened . " " The service taboo renders is to help standardize our mode of living . If a few people have the courage to - day to violate taboo , the rest of the people must ...
The Golden Bough: pt. II. Taboo and the perils of the soul. 1911
... taboo of chiefs and kings in Tonga , 133 sq .; touching for the King's Evil , 134 ; fatal effects of contact with Maori chiefs , 134-136 ; other examples of death by imagination , 136 sq . -§2 . Mourners tabooed , pp . 138-145 . - Taboos ...
Etiquette and Taboos around the World
... taboo . Dog meat is also taboo . The Tuareg follow Islamic taboos concerning blood . This means that the Tuareg do not eat blood ( in the form of black pudding ) , and since men- struation blood is thought able to harm religious ...
Totem and Taboo
... taboo makes the offender himself taboo . " The author goes on to say that certain dangers resulting from the violation of a taboo may be exercised through acts of pen- ance and ceremonies of purification . A peculiar power inherent ...
Taboo in the Hebrew Scriptures
... taboo and unfit thereafter for daily use . In Madagascar work is taboo to rela- tives after a death for a certain period in accord with the rank of each . In Polynesia , not only on the death of " Tuitonga , " or a time of general ...
The Golden Bough: Taboo and the perils of the soul
... taboo of chiefs and kings in Tonga , 133 sq .; touching for the King's Evil , 134 ; fatal effects of contact with Maori chiefs , 134-136 ; other examples of death by imagination , 136 sq . § 2. Mourners tabooed , pp . 138-145 . - Taboos ...
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.
Georges Bataille
... taboo to a dialectical operation . Just as a reading of transgression as a movement back to nature threatens to eliminate the necessary tension between transgression and taboo that generates sexuality so a dialectical reading threatens ...
The Mentor-world Traveler
... taboo . So that all sorts of reasons often very unreasonable reasons - are invented to explain the taboo . But below the surface there always are reasons for taboos . Among wild birds in a special phase of bird existence it is taboo ...
The Outline of Knowledge: The story of religion and philosophic thought. The personal romance of history
... taboo . The taboo is found among all sorts of other savage tribes , but has been very highly developed by the Polynesian sorcerer - priests . a The Taboo . The taboo ( Polynesian tapu " forbidden " ) , is system or practise which marks ...
The Origins of Love and Hate
... TABOO " ON TENDERNESS 66 " A priori " improbability of a " taboo on tenderness " -The boy - gang and its anti - feminism and anti - infantility - The " band of brothers " has primarily a social and not a practical purpose - Masculine ...
The New International Encyclopædia
... taboo is found all over the earth , but it has nowhere else been so systematized as in Poly- nesia . Primarily taboo is something forbidden because the tabooed object is regarded as potent to injure , owing to its mana or mysterious ...
The Encyclopedia Britannica
... taboo and were surrounded with a fence of basket - work . The head and hair , especially of a chief , were particularly taboo or sacred ; to touch a man's head was a gross insult . If a chief touched his ow head with his fingers he had ...
The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer
... taboo " is common to the different dialects of Polynesia , and is perhaps derived from ta , " to mark , " and pu , an adverb of intensity . The compound word " taboo " ( tapu ) would thus originally mean , " marked thoroughly . " Its ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
... taboo - the prohibition from experience , derive much of their force from an to eat certain foods and the disabilities entailed by original system of taboo . Thus on the taboo were childbirth and by contact with the dead , together with ...
New International Encyclopedia
... taboo is found all over the earth , but it has nowhere else been so systematized as in Poly- nesia . Primarily taboo is something forbidden because the tabooed object is regarded as potent to injure , owing to its mana or mysterious ...
Taboo
... taboo , as he calls out the name of Jesus at orgasm ? If Jesus , the Son , is inseparable from the Holy Trinity , isn't calling out the name of Jesus frighten- ingly ... Taboos throughout the ages 32 Taboo : Sex , Religion & Magick.