The Golden Bough
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Date
1911
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University of Fort Hare
Abstract
The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of savages. In the Polynesians tongue, from which we have adopted it, the word designates a remarkable system which has deeply influenced the religious, social and political life of the oceanic islanders, both Polynesians and Melanesians, particularly by incubating a superstitious veneration for the persons of nobles and the rights of private property.