Verbal Taboos

Privacy Taboos

✍ Shasha, Dennis E. 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Nature Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 100 KB

FOOD TABOOS

✍ Burgess, Anne 📂 Article 📅 1954 🏛 The Lancet 🌐 English ⚖ 395 KB

New Taboos

✍ Shirley, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 PM Press 🌐 English ⚖ 440 KB

Mixing outlaw humor, sci-fi adventure, and cutting social criticism, this collection draws upon John Shirley's entire arsenal. The title essay, ''New Taboos'' is his prescription for a radical revisioning of America. A new short story, ''State of Imprisonment,'' is a horrifying and hilarious look at

Interlingual Word Taboos

✍ MARY R. HAAS 📂 Article 📅 1951 🏛 American Anthropological Association 🌐 English ⚖ 471 KB

Encyclopedia of Taboos

✍ Holden, Lynn 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 ABC-Clio Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 358 KB

SUMMARY: What are the origins of table manners? What are the politics of cannibalism? Why is the left hand thought to be sinister? These apparently unrelated questions all hinge on the fundamental notion of taboo. Far from being peripheral leftovers from distant times and places, taboos are a cruc

Encyclopedia of Taboos

✍ Holden, Lynn 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 ABC-Clio Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 320 KB

SUMMARY: What are the origins of table manners? What are the politics of cannibalism? Why is the left hand thought to be sinister? These apparently unrelated questions all hinge on the fundamental notion of taboo. Far from being peripheral leftovers from distant times and places, taboos are a cruc