e/Taboo (book)

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has gloss	eng: Taboo is a monograph by Franz Steiner, published posthumously, which is now considered to be a classic in the field of social anthropology. It consists of 12 lectures, edited by his student Laura Bohannan, and with a preface by his mentor E. E. Evans-Pritchard, analysing one of the great problematical terms of modern ethnography, namely the concept denoted by taboo, a Polynesian word adopted by Western scholars to refer to a generic set of ritual inhibitions governing what was thought to be primitive society or the ‘savage mind’.
lexicalization	eng: taboo
instance of	(noun) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject monograph