Taboo
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2004
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-415-33040-4 (ISBN)
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.
This book contains chapters on:
? Taboo as a Victorian invention
? The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch
? Taboos in Polynesia
Originally published in 1956.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-33040-4 (9780415330404)
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Additional editions
Franz Steiner
Taboo
Book
08/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.84
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Content
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