The Forest of Taboos - Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	March 2000
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	592
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-16214-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-299-16214-1
Barcode:	9780299162146

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