Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces
shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and
these are not always well understood. Norman L. Farberow argues
that culture itself provides structure for its members, developing
in a well-defined way the rules to which they will conform. Such
rules find expression not only in written laws and regulations but
include, and most often stem from, unwritten folkways, customs, and
especially taboos, the subject of this book. The researchers
reporting in this volume take no position on the nature of a taboo
itself, but concentrate on the difficulty in investigating taboos.
As members of society and human beings, they do make judgments and
personal investments. Thus, when taboos continue or develop without
useful society-enriching functions or facilitate self-destructive
activities, they raise questions about why they persist. Such
topics include many areas'some social, such as sex, death, and
peace; others more academic, such as parapsychology, graphology,
religion, and hypnosis. Peace and the public are included in the
discussion because they are emotion-laden areas and powerful and
important factors in a shrinking world and expanding universe.
Peace, especially, has begun to be looked upon with suspicion
perhaps a real commentary on our times. This probing collection
will be sure to interest sociologists, anthropologists, and all
other social scientists.
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