Taboo, personal and collective representations : origin and positioning within cultural complexes / Elizabeth Brodersen.
| Author/creator | Brodersen, Elizabeth author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- The nature of taboo in indigenous practices -- Taboo, order, disorder, abjection and dirt -- Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structure -- The origin and positioning of incest taboo -- Taboo, and emotional ambivalence -- Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate states -- Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysis -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed from disorder as polluted/disassociated. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach which compares the anthropological, ethnological, sociological, and depth psychological perspectives of renowned scholars in their examination of taboos. Unconscious/conscious taboos influence how we perceive transitional, indeterminate states across margins in the maturation and individuation processes. The book argues that a taboo embodies the perilous, symbolic meaning of such a rite of passage and that its emotional value and intensity in the form of symptomology varies across cultures. Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, origins of religion, race, gender, and depth psychology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Brodersen, Elizabeth. Taboo, personal and collective representations. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781138488595 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Cross-cultural studies. |
| LCCN | 2019001576 |
| ISBN | 9781351039888 (epub) |
| ISBN | 1351039881 |
| ISBN | 9781351039901 (E-book) |
| ISBN | 1351039903 |
| ISBN | 9781351039895 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 135103989X (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781351039871 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 1351039873 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | (hbk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4324/9781351039901 |
| Stock number | 9781351039888 Ingram Content Group |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |