Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
§ 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers. § 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking. § 3. Taboos on shewing the Face. § 4. Taboos on quitting the House. § 5. Taboos on leaving Food over.
(M195) Unable to discriminate clearly between words and things, the savage commonly fancies that the link between a name and the person or thing denominated by it is not a mere...
12. CHAPTER IV. TABOOED PERSONS.(M84) We have seen that the Mikado’s food was cooked every day in new pots and served up in new dishes; both pots and dishes were of common clay, in order that they might be bro...
13. CHAPTER V. TABOOED THINGS.(M144) Thus in primitive society the rules of ceremonial purity observed by divine kings, chiefs, and priests agree in many respects with the rules observed by homicides, mourne...
10. CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL.(M19) The foregoing examples have taught us that the office of a sacred king or priest is often hedged in by a series of burdensome restrictions or taboos, of which a principal...
19. part ii. (Leyden and New York) pp. 487 _sqq._; Crabouillet, “Les732 Prof. W. Ridgeway ingeniously suggests that the magical virtue of iron may be based on an observation of its magnetic power, which would lead savages to imagine that it was...
15. CHAPTER VII. OUR DEBT TO THE SAVAGE.(M254) It would be easy to extend the list of royal and priestly taboos, but the instances collected in the preceding pages may suffice as specimens. To conclude this part of ou...
18. xxv. This account of Corea was written at a time when the country354 James Napier, _Folk-lore, or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland_, p. 142. For more examples of the same sort, see R. Andree, _Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergl...
11. CHAPTER III. TABOOED ACTS.(M69) So much for the primitive conceptions of the soul and the dangers to which it is exposed. These conceptions are not limited to one people or country; with variations of de...
9. CHAPTER I. THE BURDEN OF ROYALTY.(M1) At a certain stage of early society the king or priest is often thought to be endowed with supernatural powers or to be an incarnation of a deity, and consistently with thi...
20. part i. p. 656.1354 H. H. Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific States_, i. 248. Compare K. F. v. Baer und Gr. v. Helmersen, _Beiträge zur Kenntniss des russischen Reiches und der angränzende...
16. part ii. vol. i. (Rangoon, 1901) p. 308.40 Among the Gallas the king, who also acts as priest by performing sacrifices, is the only man who is not allowed to fight with weapons; he may not even ward off a blow. See Ph...
17. letter 29.201 Van Schmidt, “Aanteekeningen nopens de zeden, gewoonten en gebruiken, benevens de vooroordeelen en bijgelovigheden der bevolking van de eilanden Saparoea, Haroekoe, Noessa L...
8. Chapter VII. Our Debt To The Savage.The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of savages. In the Polynesian tongue, from which we have adopted it, the word...
6. Chapter V. Tabooed Things.§ 1. The Meaning of Taboo. § 2. Iron tabooed. § 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed. § 4. Blood tabooed. § 5. The Head tabooed. § 6. Hair tabooed. § 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting. § 8. Dis...
7. Chapter VI. Tabooed Words.§ 1. Personal Names tabooed. § 2. Names of Relations tabooed. § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed. § 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed. § 5. Names of Gods tabooed. §...
4. Chapter III. Tabooed Acts.§ 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers. § 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking. § 3. Taboos on shewing the Face. § 4. Taboos on quitting the House. § 5. Taboos on leaving Food over.
5. Chapter IV. Tabooed Persons.3. Chapter II. The Perils Of The Soul.1. Part II2. Chapter I. The Burden Of Royalty.