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From:Oceania (Vol. 91, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses the two terms that convey the concept of taboo in Raga, the language of north-central Vanuatu originally spoken in north Pentecost, and provides linguistic evidence expanding on the information...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article outlines several layers of the relation-making indexicality of name avoidance in a New Guinea society. These layers include: avoidance's paradoxical logic o[ achieving relational intensification through...
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From:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 126, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedChild swearing is a largely unexplored topic among language researchers, although assumptions about what children know about taboo language form the basis for language standards in many settings. The purpose of the...
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From:Ethnology (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe meta-narrative of modernity often posits an inevitable shift from "dividual" to "individual" modalities of personhood. This presumes that with growing commodificatiion, persons are no longer enmeshed in networks of...
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From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities Edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms Alyson Publications. 460 pages, $16.95 The latest HIV statistics for the U.S. disclose an alarming disparity in the...
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From:Ahfad Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Female genital cutting (FGC) is a widely blamed practice for violating women's reproductive rights and health. However, the diversity and complexity of FGC-related beliefs and practices within the same...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEverywhere, there are topics and words that local conventions brand as "unmentionable" yet people manage to communicate about the unmentionable nevertheless. What are their strategies for doing so, and how well can...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn televised debates in US electoral politics, behavior before The Issues is scrupulously monitored, so much so that even a candidate's dysfluencies can be perilous, often registering to commentators as 'avoidance' and...
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedScholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form,...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn my way to an evening class, my eye caught an interesting poster on the hall bulletin board. In its most recent efforts to rehabilitate my retrograde moral sensibility, Fordham University advertised that it would now...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFreud's consideration of political authority begins with his hypothesis that civilization originates at the price of the murder of the primal father. At the conclusion of Totem and Taboo, he locates the beginnings of...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 23, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe clocks have gone back, winter is here and the value of my pension is dwindling faster than I can say 'credit crunch'. So naturally my thoughts have turned to death. Actually, what really inspired me to...
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From:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Inalienable possessions, Annette Weiner (1992) focuses on the paradox of 'keeping-while-giving' rather than the 'norm of reciprocity' as the central issue of social life, drawing heavily on Trobriand examples. In...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 52, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn her essay of 1984 on ineffability in Shakespeare, Marjorie Garber gives Macbeth as a typical example of how linguistic interdiction may be due to a taboo. Her reference is to the "deed without a name" (1) by which...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 133, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines how Arabic handled societal taboos in the medieval Islamic world and the ways by which language users applied censorship that led to the creation of euphemisms. Special attention is given to...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 12, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSummary This article examines parental and family myths regarding children, with particular concentration on the child with severe developmental disabilities who may never be able to challenge their allocated...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe robust "accent culture" of English-language speech in the Irish Republic provides an opportunity to explore the concept of verbal taboo in terms of non-referential indexical function (in this case, phonological...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEarly reviews of Lolita (1958), from both admirers and detractors, concocted the perfect mixture for an American best-seller: with praise for the novel's writerly achievement and comedy mixed with condemnation of its...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 97, Issue 2)THE BIG NECESSITY: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. Rose George. xii + 288 pp. Metropolitan Books, 2008. $26. THE LAST TABOO: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis. Maggie Black...
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From:Africa (Vol. 91, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the abandonment of an important food taboo--the prohibition of milk consumption by newly married women--in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s. Offering a detailed exploration...