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taboos  

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  • Taboo is a concept that originated in a very specific cultural meaning and became generalized in popular English. Popularly it means forbidden and to be avoided—by custom, or because of some danger, or under some general supernatural sanction, or by explicit divine order. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Taboos]

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