Taboo

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Taboo
Ever since Captain Cook first used the word fn his account of the Polynesians, the strange phenomenon of taboo has fascinated laymen and scholars alike. It has been absorbed into the language of psycKology and has been applied, often carelessly, to a wide and varied range of human customs and „beliefs. Franz Steiner's now classic study examines critically the taboo theories of Frazer, Freud, Lévy-Bruhl and others, and clears up much of the confusion surrounding a mysterious facet of human behaviour.
'His book will be found to be of great value to anyone interested in the idea of taboo and to those who in the future tackle once more the problems it raises it states in small compass, but with equal learning and wit, everything of any significance which has been written about taboo' - Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard
PELICAN ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY
The Pelican Anthropology Library is designed to introducé a rapidly changing and expanding subject to awider public. It will... Tovább

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Taboo
Ever since Captain Cook first used the word fn his account of the Polynesians, the strange phenomenon of taboo has fascinated laymen and scholars alike. It has been absorbed into the language of psycKology and has been applied, often carelessly, to a wide and varied range of human customs and „beliefs. Franz Steiner's now classic study examines critically the taboo theories of Frazer, Freud, Lévy-Bruhl and others, and clears up much of the confusion surrounding a mysterious facet of human behaviour.
'His book will be found to be of great value to anyone interested in the idea of taboo and to those who in the future tackle once more the problems it raises it states in small compass, but with equal learning and wit, everything of any significance which has been written about taboo' - Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard
PELICAN ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY
The Pelican Anthropology Library is designed to introducé a rapidly changing and expanding subject to awider public. It will include both reprints of modern classics of anthropological research and theory, and new introductory studies. Kinship and Marriage, by Robin Fox, is published at the same time as this volume, and further titles are projected in such subjects as primitive art, law, magie and religion, economics and applied anthropology.
The cover shows a hut roof decoration from the New Hebrides in the Gallerie J. Bucher, photo Luc Joubert (Snark International) Vissza