Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Origin and Positioning within Cultural Complexes
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-66049-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The nature of taboo in indigenous practices
Chapter 3: Taboo, order, disorder, abjection, and dirt.
Chapter 4: Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structures
Chapter 5: The origin and positioning of incest taboo
Chapter 6: Taboo and emotional ambivalence
Chapter 7: Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate states
Chapter 8: Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysis
Chapter 9: Conclusion
