Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations: Origin and Positioning within Cultural Complexes Contributor(s): Brodersen, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138488593 ISBN-13: 9781138488595 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Mental Health - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
Dewey: 390 |
LCCN: 2018052084 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.99 lbs) 184 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |