Taboo
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Taboo
（Routledge library editions, . Anthropology and ethnography ; 61 . Social and cultural anthropology ; 15）
Routledge, 2004
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Cohen & West, 1956
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur.
This book contains chapters on:
* Taboo as a Victorian invention
* The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch
* Taboos in Polynesia
Originally published in 1956.
Table of Contents
1. The Discovery of Taboo2. Taboo in Polynesia (1)3. Taboo in Polynesia (2)4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson Smith5. Taboo and Contagion6. Taboo and the 'Holy'7. the Hebrew Bible: Snaith and Frazer8. Frazer and His Critic, Marett9. Taboo as Negative Mana 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-Brown11. Wundt and Freud12. The Problem of Taboo
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