Taboo Personal and Collective Representations

<p><em>Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations</em> 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 <i>order</i> as clean/blessed from <i>disorder </i>as polluted/disassociated. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><em>Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations</em> 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.</p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction</p><p></p><p>Chapter 2: The nature of taboo in indigenous practices </p><p></p><p>Chapter 3: Taboo, order, disorder, abjection, and dirt. </p><p></p><p>Chapter 4: Totem and taboo, animal categories, and kinship structures</p><p></p><p>Chapter 5: The origin and positioning of incest taboo</p><p></p><p>Chapter 6: Taboo and emotional ambivalence</p><p></p><p>Chapter 7: Taboo, rites of passage, and indeterminate states</p><p></p><p>Chapter 8: Taboo, shamanism, and Jungian psychoanalysis</p><p></p><p>Chapter 9: Conclusion</p>