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1	Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $14.52! \| SVS
2	Wetlands more books like this by Charlotte Roche, Tim Mohr (Translator) add to wishlist With more than one million copies sold in Germany and rights snapped up in twenty-seven countries, "Wetlands" is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.70! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Totem and taboo more books like this by Sigmund Freud add to wishlist Four essays on civilization: "The Horror of Incest," "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence," "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts," and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood." Freud explicates the presence of two "primitive" themes, totem and taboo, in "the religions, manners, and customs of civilized peoples today." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo more books like this by Carole A Travis-Henikoff, Christy G Turner, II (Foreword by) add to wishlist Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, this account takes readers on an astonishing trip around the world and throughout history, painting the incredible, multifaceted realities of cannibalism. Focusing on how cannibalism began with the human species and how it has become an unspeakable taboo today, this study ... see all copies from $14.61! new only from $14.61! \| SVS
5	Stalking the Wild Taboo more books like this by Garrett Hardin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Totem and taboo : resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics more books like this by Sigmund Freud add to wishlist Four essays on civilization: "The Horror of Incest," "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence," "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts," and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood." Freud explicates the presence of two "primitive" themes, totem and taboo, in "the religions, manners, and customs of civilized peoples today." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.29! \| first editions
7	Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives more books like this by Sabrina P Ramet (Editor) add to wishlist This text comprises a collection of commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural and cross-historical perspective on the subject. It documents the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity up to the present. It examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how this underlies various religious and ... see all copies from $37.63! new only from $37.63! \| SVS
8	Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language more books like this by Dr. Ruth Wajnryb add to wishlist In this captivating foray into foul language, linguist Wajnryb offers a provocative glimpse into the eternal fascination with curse words. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.42! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture more books like this by Ray B Browne (Editor) add to wishlist This volume examines the concept of taboos and tabooism and a dozen powerful ones in our society and suggests the control they exert on our everyday lives. see all copies from $6.71! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
10	Purity and Danger more books like this by Professor Mary Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from $4.60! first editions
11	Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture more books like this by Fran Lloyd (Editor), Catherine O'Brien (Editor) add to wishlist In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from different disciplines and different locations, this volume ... see all copies from $23.51! new only from $23.51! \| first editions
12	Everyone Is Not Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity more books like this by Jamie L Mullaney add to wishlist Labels like vegan, virgin, or nonsmoker get thrown around to identify forms of abstinence, but for many abstainers such labels are also proud declarations of who they are. Setting aside the moral debates and psychological assessments surrounding abstinence, Jamie L. Mullaney here asks why it is that the act of not doing something plays such a ... see all copies from $4.10! new only from $22.83!
13	The anatomy of dirty words. more books like this by Edward Sagarin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo more books like this by Georges Bataille add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! first editions \| SVS
15	Taboos in German Literature more books like this by David Jackson (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of ten essays written by German scholars investigating the formulation of taboos in literature, and the literary strategies and artistic devices used by German writers to subvert the unspeakable. Of course, homosexuality and sexuality are a major focus of discussion, but the authors als see all copies from $20.59! new only from $63.55! \| first editions
16	Translation and Taboo more books like this by Professor Douglas Robinson add to wishlist From the time of the first written sacred texts in the West, taboo has proscribed the act and art of translation. So argues the author of this book, exploring the age-old prohibition of translation of sacred texts. He shows how similar taboos influence interculture exchange. Probing concepts about language, culture, and geopolitical boundaries - ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $54.40!
17	The Last Taboo: Sex and the Fear of Death more books like this by James Lewton Brain add to wishlist see all copies from $2.86! first editions \| SVS
18	Freud and Anthropology: A History and Reappraisal more books like this by Edwin R Wallace add to wishlist see all copies from $8.95! first editions \| SVS
19	Taboo: A Sociological Study more books like this by Hutton Webster add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! first editions
20	The virgin archetype; two papers. more books like this by J. Layard add to wishlist see all copies from $10.49! first editions
21	Totem and taboo; some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics. more books like this by Sigmund Freud add to wishlist see all copies from $5.82! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
22	Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures more books like this by Sabrina P Ramet add to wishlist Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject. The book documents the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity up to the present. It examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how ... see all copies from $50.50! new only from $141.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions more books like this by Benjamin DeMott add to wishlist At the center of You Don't Say are the propositions that the present age of personal liberation has created as many inhibitions as it has abolished; some of our freedoms could be used with a sharper sense of tact; and some freedoms we have lost are worth remembering - or even recovering. The essays that comprise You Don't Say reflect on the use of ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $41.96!
24 view cover	Orientalism, Value, and Civilization more books like this by Franz B Steiner add to wishlist This second volume of Franz Steiner''s writings on anthropology seeks to promote a re-evaluation of his thought by presenting his ideas in their most complete form to date. It includes a newly researched introduction which provides a brief biography.' see all copies from $5.25! new only from $41.79!
25 view cover	Taboo more books like this by Franz Steiner add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $28.61! \| first editions

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