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It is a significant fact that 'totem' and 'taboo' are concepts for which our cultural languages possess no adequate words. Both these terms are taken from the languages of so-called natural peoples, 'totem' from an idiom of the North…
- The Threshold of Religion Essay III. Is Taboo a Negative Magic?
T^RAZER'S intellectualistic explanation of magic as a misapplication of the association of ideas by similarity and contiguity is extended by him to cover likewise the whole doctrine of taboo, which on this view is just a negative magic…
- The Life of a South African Tribe Part VI, Chapter 4
…But if sacredness has been in certain cases a natural development of taboo, I do not think this is the case with moral notions. In some cases, morality distinctly preceded taboo : speaking of theft, we have just seen the taboo…
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…This continuous contact introduces once more all the original dangers of sexual taboo, as it were in spite of the act of ngia ngiampe ; in other words, the factors of contact which produce the taboo remain, after the taboo is…
- Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions III. Private Property
…If a common man took it upon himself to taboo anything, people would watch to see whether a transgressor of the taboo fell sick ; if he did, it was a proof that the man who imposed the taboo was backed…
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HOLINESS, UNCLEANNESS AND TABOO. A^ARious parallels between savage taboos, and Semitic rules of holiness and uncleanness, will come before us from time to time ; but it may be useful to bring together at this point some detailed evidences that…
- Medicine, Magic, and Religion Chapter II
…Hocart and I spent several months, we found between the treatment of disease and certain religious practices, especially that of taboo, a connexion so intimate that the account of medical practice is at the same time an account of taboo…
- Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Chapter 12
INCEST Definition.--Incest notion was produced from the folkways.--The notion that inbreeding is harmful.--Status-wife, work-wife, love-wife.--The abomination of incest.--The incest taboo is strongest in the strongest groups.--Incest in ethnography.-- Incest in civilized…
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…The taboo is now to be broken. The general removal of taboo takes many forms, some of which we have observed in passing. In all these forms alike the idea is to get rid of the material taboo substance, the…
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The last and most important mediod of breaking taboo remans to be dcsajbed. In it the whole cycle of ideas of contact which underlie human relations generally and the relations of the sexes in particular, is completed, and thus the…
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These ideas concerning contact regulate in social taboo human relations generally, and in sexual taboo those of men and women. The sexual properties whose trans- mission renders contact dangerous or beneficent may now be recapitulated, and further proof given of…
- The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage Chapter XIII
…The taboo on each food is taken off ceremonially. For instance, the " pig taboo " is taken oflF by pressing a pig on to the boy's body " in token of his becoming strong and brave." The "honey taboo" with girls…