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Kirby, Jon P. Taboos and development. Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies, 1987.

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Seng, Ann Wan. Chinese customs and taboos. Fajar Bakti, 1995.

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Yamada, Yukihiro. Itbayat beliefs and taboos (Batanes, Philippines). Himeji Dokkyo University, 1999.

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Sjöblom, Tom. Early Irish taboos: A study in cognitive history. University of Helsinki, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2000.

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Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, ed. Der böse Expressionismus: Trauma und Tabu. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2017.

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David, Jackson, ed. Taboos in German literature. Berghahn Books, 1996.

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Eyisi, Victor M. C. Abominations and taboos in Igbo Land: (Arụ na nsọ n'ala Igbo). Jo-Gene Int'l Ltd., 2006.

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author, Deb Sibnath, ed. Test of manhood: Male sexual problems, taboos and pathos. Akansha Publishing House, 2013.

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Valeri, Valerio. The forest of taboos: Morality, hunting, and identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

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Agyakwa, K. O. African taboos and science education: An exploration of the epistemological and scientific relevance of significant African cultural dos and donts. Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1992.

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Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society. A Study of the Hittite Expression natta ara ( 'not permitted'). Universitätsverlag Winter, 2002.

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Taboos: A Short Dictionary of the Forbidden. Athlone Press, 1997.

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Arthur, Robert. You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos. Feral House, 2013.

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Wolf, Arthur P. Incest Avoidance and the Incest Taboos: Two Aspects of Human Nature. Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Rosewarne, Lauren. American Taboo. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400612374.

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America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence … male nudity … abortion … masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our society—and our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how

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Local Chinese beliefs, myths, taboos & superstitions. Raymond Kwok, 2007.

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Holden, Lynn Rosemary. Encyclopedia of Taboos. ABC-CLIO, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216022084.

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From ancient times to the present, taboos have affected our societies, as demonstrated in this encyclopedia full of unusual information from around the world. The topic of taboos has rarely been discussed in any comprehensive way in recent years, as though the word itself has become taboo in our efforts to dispel the myth of the irrationality of supposedly 'primitive' cultures. TheEncyclopedia of Taboosis a mine of unusual information from around the world, including a comprehensive analysis of individual taboos from the ancient world to the present day, covering both well- and lesser-known ex

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Stojnić, Una, and Ernie Lepore. Inflammatory Language. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198920458.001.0001.

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Abstract It’s a platitude that words can harm. But some words are more prone to do so than others; they are pejorative by design. Among those, slurs are particularly inflammatory: these are the epithets that derogate purely on the basis of group membership (e.g., on the basis of race, ethnicity, origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or ideology). This book is in large part about pejoratives, but mainly about this subclass of particularly inflammatory words, with a characteristic offensive sting—slurs. Slurs are powerful linguistic weapons: slurring someone constitutes a transgression m

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Silverman, Lisa. The Postwar Antisemite. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197697757.001.0001.

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Abstract This book argues that in the wake of the Holocaust, Austrians, Germans, and others often turned to a figural Antisemite to come to terms with their altered political, economic, and cultural circumstances and to shape new national and moral self-understandings. This spectral figure of the Antisemite came into being immediately after the Holocaust, when Nazi atrocities made explicit expressions of antisemitism taboo. As a readily recognizable and easily adaptable figure of evil, the Antisemite loomed large as a powerful and persistent trope in a wide range of artistic and cultural narra

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On the ethos of Hindu women: Issues, taboos, and forms of expression. Mandala Publications, 2004.

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Etiquette and Taboos Around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.

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Etiquette and Taboos Around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.

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Hirsch, Alexander Keller, and David W. McIvor, eds. Democratic Arts of Mourning. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978730694.

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The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify the intertwinement between politics and mourning. The chapters are organized into five thematic sections that each shed light on how democratic societies relate to loss, grief, suffering, and death. Co

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Allan, Keith, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. What is in fact tabooed is the use of those words and language in certain contexts; in short, the taboo applies to instances of language behaviour. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community but the degree of harm can fall anywhere on a scale from a breach of etiquette to out-and-out fatality. All tabooed behaviours are deprecated and they

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Legal systems and incest taboos: The transition from childhood to adolescence. AldineTransaction, 2010.

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Cohen, Yehudi A., and John R. Commons. Legal Systems and Incest Taboos: The Transition from Childhood to Adolescence. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Beiner, Guy. Restored Forgetting. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749356.003.0007.

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Social forgetting is reinforced by prohibitions on memories that do not correspond to the official ethos. Following Partition, the unionist state in Northern Ireland effectively proscribed commemoration of the United Irishmen. Nonetheless, interest in 1798 found expression in various cultural productions that broke the silence on this taboo. Local folk history traditions persisted into the twentieth century. However, during the violent years of the Troubles, open remembrance was once again subject to decommemorating and forms of censorship. Silencing was undermined by a number of nonconformist

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Valeri, Valerio. The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

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Jackson, Lucy J. Healthy Relationship Taboo: Unlocking the Unusual Secrets and Taboos That Are Gateway to a Long Lasting Relationship and Marriage. Independently Published, 2020.

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Mabilia, Mara. Breast Feeding and Sexuality: Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania. Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2005.

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Mabilia, Mara. Breast Feeding and Sexuality: Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania. Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2005.

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Lyall, Ockham, Russell, Seagle, Ockham. Today and Tomorrow Volume 15 Society and the State : It Isn't Done: Taboos among the British Islanders Stentor or the Press of Today and Tomorrow Nuntius or the Future of Advertising Cato or the Future of Censorship. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

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MacCormack, Patricia. Death Activism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350376229.

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Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the ‘management’ of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence. Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a ‘death activism’ – a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression. Crucial to the foundation of death acti

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Cabreira, Regina Helena Urias. Reflexões literárias sobre a mulher, o mito, o herói, a história e a sociedade. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-008-3.

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This work presents monographs from former students of the Letters Course – Portuguese/English and Letters Course – English at the Federal Technological University of Parana. These studies relie on the uniqueness of each approach and on the expression of young values and perceptions referring to women’s role in society, from the 18th through the 20th century; to an outstanding symbolic analysis of a renowned masterpiece; to the legitimacy mythology brings to a literary discussion on the hero’s journey; to the courage to cast the disconcerting gothic perspective on works considered only modernis

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Bjork, Stephanie R. Celebration. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040931.003.0004.

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This chapter reveals that Somali women perform clan in gender-specific ways. Aroosyo (weddings), communitywide events for Somalis, are key sites for legitimizing clan claims and integrating kin through exchange of capital. During these rites of integration, women perform and honor their clans publicly by displaying their clan competence. Because clan is a sensitive if not taboo topic for public discourse, tensions among clans may arise in response to efforts to establish clan hegemony. Sites of integration also become sites of resistance. Some women may use the public event to initiate horizon

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