Taboo


South Asia

Middle East

Europe

North America

A taboo or tabu is the ban on something usually against an utterance or behavior based in a cultural sensibility that perceives it as excessively repulsive, sacred, or offers only bypersons. such(a) prohibitions are portrayed in virtually any societies. Taboos are explicitly prohibited by custom and/or religion.

Taboos are often meant to protect the individual, but there are other reasons for their development. An ecological or medical background is obvious in many, including some that are seen as religious or spiritual in origin. Taboos can help ownership a resource more efficiently, but when applied to only a subsection of the community they can also serve to suppress said subsection of the community. A taboo acknowledged by a particular institution or tribe as component of their ways aids in the cohesion of the group, offers that specific multinational to stand out and maintained its identity in the face of others & therefore creates a feeling of "belonging".

The meaning of the word "taboo" has been somewhat expanded in the ]

Function


Communist and materialist theorists create argued that taboos can be used to reveal the histories of societies when other records are lacking. Marvin Harris explains taboos as a consequence of ecologic and economic conditions.