Encyclopedia of Taboos
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781576070697
Subjects: Customs & folklore; Reference works; Social Deviance; Religion; Ethics; Taboo; Sociology; Social History; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Encyclopedias; Psychology of Religion
Notes: LIST OF HEADWORDS:

Art in China – Barth, Fredrik (1928- ) -- Bataille, Georges (1897-1962) -- Beans -- Begging -- Blue -- 

Camels  -- Cannabis sativa L. -- Cannibalism -- Carnival -- Cereals -- Chinese food taboos -- Chopsticks -- Clitoris -- Cook, Captain James (1728-79) and taboo in Polynesia -- Cows -- Cross-roads -- Cunnilingus -- 

De Sade, marquis d. A. F. (l740-1814) -- Death -- Deformity -- “Degenerate” art -- “Degenerate” music -- Diethlyamide (LSD) -- Diminished fifth, the -- Dogs -- Dolls and puppets -- Douglas, Mary (1921- ) -- Dreams -- Durkheim, Emile (1858-1918) -- 

Eggs -- Evil eye -- Excrement -- Fasting -- Fellatio -- Fetishism -- Fish -- Fishing -- Flamen dialis -- Flutes -- Folktales, eating in -- Folktales, taboos in -- Folktales, the telling of -- Food taboos -- Foods forbidden to Brahmins -- Frazer, James George (1854-1941) -- Freckles -- Freud , Sigmund (1856-1939) : totem and taboo -- Frogs -- 

Geis, gessa  -- Gell, Alfred (1945-97) -- Green -- Hair -- Halal -- Haram -- Heliocentricity : Galileo -- Horses -- Hunting taboos in Japan -- Iconoclasm -- Incest -- Initiation -- 

Japanese menstrual huts -- Jewish dietary laws --  Keesing, Roger M. (1935-93) -- Knots -- 

Laws of Manu -- Leach, Edmund R. (1910-88) -- Left hand, the -- Liminality -- Looking or seeing -- Lysergic acid -- 

Maretr, Robert R. (1866-1943) -- Mead, Margaret (1901-78) -- Menstruation -- Mescaline, peyote and the San Pedro cactus -- Miasma -- Milk -- Mirrors -- Mountains -- Mushrooms -- Musical harmony -- 

Naming  -- Necrophagy and asceticism -- Necrophilia -- Noa -- North-east -- 

Ockam’s razor -- Onanism -- Otters -- Oysters -- 

Parents-in-law -- Perspective in painting -- Pigs -- Plato on music -- Political censorship : jokes --  Pollution -- Pornography -- Possum -- Procreation -- Propp, Vladimir Jacovlevic (1895-1970) -- 

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881-1955) -- Ragas -- Red -- Rough music -- 

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold (1835-95) -- Salt -- Sartorial taboos -- Sex and the anthropologist -- Shinto purification -- Sin-eater -- Smith, William Robertson (1846-94) -- Snails -- Solitude -- Soma -- Song of the siren -- Spittle -- Steiner, Franz Baermann (1909-52) -- Strangers -- Suicide -- Surrealism -- 

Table manners -- Taoism : Japanese -- Theory of evolution : Darwin -- Tobacco -- Tortoises -- Trade -- Transvestism -- Twins -- 

Untouchables -- Urine --  Vagina -- Van Gennep, Arnold (1873-1957) -- Webster, Hutton (1875-1955) -- Whistling -- Wine -- Writing -- Yellow -- Zoroastrian purification rituals.