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The forest of taboos : morality, hunting, and identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas / Valerio Valeri ; with an introduction by Janet Hoskins.
Penn Museum Library DS646.66.H82 V35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valeri, Valerio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Huaulu (Indonesian people)--Psychology.
- Huaulu (Indonesian people).
- Huaulu (Indonesian people)--Ethnic identity.
- Huaulu (Indonesian people)--Hunting.
- Taboo--Indonesia--Maluku.
- Taboo.
- Hunting.
- Ethnicity.
- Psychology.
- Maluku (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Maluku (Indonesia).
- Indonesia--Maluku.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 509 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- This eloquent and profound book, completed by Valerio Valeri shortly before his death in 1998, contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death, and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. In elegant prose, Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, forest hunters of Indonesia. The hidden attractions of the animal world, which invades the human world in perilous ways, he shows, also delineate that which the Huaulu regard as most human about themselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-502) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299162109
- 0299162141
- OCLC:
- 40200274
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