Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco by Lucas Bessire

“…Although ethnographers have imagined ritual forms like the ujnarone to be the locus for Ayoreo cultural authenticity, they have been entirely abandoned by contemporary Ayoreo, many of whom now view them as dangerously taboo. This essay argues against the ethnographic fetishization of traditional practices such as ujnarone, and provides a way to conceptualize ritual discourse as a precedent, not an opposite, to contemporary Ayoreo Christianity and use of electronic media technologies.…”
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Philippe et Françoise sont-ils mieux appréciés à l’école qu'Illyas et Yasmina ? by Iuliana Lunca Popa

“…The problem of inequality in school brings us inevitably to the ethnic issue, a taboo and a phenomenon described as “invisible” in France. …”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…It argues that Wilde adopted the foreign language as a strategy for representing the taboo of incestuous and homoerotic desire, murder and necrophilia. …”
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Cultural implications through hand gesture in Japanese and Balinese communities by Imelda Imelda, Harisal Harisal

“…Additionally, both cultures incorporate elements of taboo, honor, and status in their gestures. However, Balinese body language is influenced by the cultural concept of Rwa Bineda, while Japanese body language is more influenced by inyo.…”
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Pre-siting of UAV stations for traffic accident assessment considering road dispersion. by Sizhe Wang, Yanying Shang

“…To solve this problem, we improved the simulated annealing algorithm by combining the multi-neighborhood strategy, adaptive neighborhood size, and adding a taboo list, and verified the effectiveness of the algorithm. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life by Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence

“… Mortality has been a taboo subject for many years. Many cultural, demographic, educational, and policy changes have played a part in a shift toward an increased openness to talking about death as a natural part of life in the United States. …”
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L’espace urbain algérois à l’épreuve de ses graffiti by Karim Ouaras

“…It reveals multiple strategies to manifest desire to say, to break taboo, and to give meaning to its presence in the city as a social actor. …”
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Stigmatization as a Barrier to Urologic Care: A Review by Parker Foster, Marie Luebke, Abrahim N. Razzak, Danyon J. Anderson, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…Urology is a specialized field that focuses on many of these conditions that society has deemed taboo to discuss. In this review, we address barriers that have prevented patients from seeking urologic care in order to better understand and elucidate important concerns within development of the physician-patient relationship. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…It argues that while some of these practices made fatherhood fluid and accrued uncommon agency to women, others framed women in taboo and sexuality. The central contribution of this paper is that as a study in gender, it brings the discourse within the framework of shifting fatherhood and sexuality in Yorùbá. …”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Julie Dash dedicated Daughters of the Dust to the female members of the black community, endeavouring to uncover the secrets of their common history turned into a taboo subject by the silence that enshrouds the issue of femininity at the time of slavery. …”
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« L'État de tous les spectateurs » by Irina Tcherneva

“…The definition is not taboo any more, Soviet administration claims it in public: “The cinema is also a trade sphere”. …”
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Le cru de l’écrit ou les archives de la sauvagerie by Alice Delmotte-Halter

“…The ethnocritic ethnographer here observes that the principles of taboo, prohibition and shame, are those that maybe reorganize the most strongly rewritings up to their final book form. …”
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La difficile sortie du placard ou les jeux de la norme et de la transgression dans Maurice de E. M. Forster by Thierry Goater

“…One of the main reasons is certainly to be found in the author’s decision to tackle directly the question of homosexuality, a personal as much as a social taboo. The conflict between light and darkness, expression and silence, desire and convention, characterises all of Forster’s works but reaches a climax in this novel. …”
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Narratives of Judgement: Representations of “Privileged” Jews in Holocaust Documentaries by Adam Brown

“…Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi’s highly influential essay, “The Grey Zone”, explores the taboo issue of “privileged” Jews, those prisoners who were forced to cooperate with their Nazi captors in order to prolong their lives or the lives of their families. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life by Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence

“… Mortality has been a taboo subject for many years. Many cultural, demographic, educational, and policy changes have played a part in a shift toward an increased openness to talking about death as a natural part of life in the United States. …”
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Czy nuda w szkole może stanowić barierę w edukacji? by Iga Kazimierczyk

“…In the article I focus on barriers such as lack of knowledge about boredom, social learning of boredom, inhibition of conversation and communication process in the classroom, training of social isolation, feelings of fear, the threat of lower school achievements, poorer functioning and well-being of the student, equation of boredom with lack of being busy, and acceptance of boredom as a taboo. …”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…Contemporary unfinished buildings, which represent a widespread sort of abandoned built environment around the globe, have only recently shaken off the taboo to which they have been relegated by their inescapable condition as symbols of failure. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…For fifteen years, many Moroccan women writers have been breaking the silence on the persistent taboo of feminine virginity in a traditional patriarchal society. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…Among several topics discussed, pointing the work of the two authors, it can be mentioned, to highlight the painstaking handling of narrative forms and records, the exploring of the fantastic-realist trend; inter-textuality; the frequent use of peritexts; female protagonists, the taste for taboo topics; and social criticism.…”
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Le leadership : la fin d’un tabou et le début d’un mythe. Évolution des métiers de l’encadrement scolaire et de leur formation en Suisse romande by Laetitia Progin

“…This analysis highlights the fact that – mainly as a result of training – school principals no longer consider leadership to be a taboo word, whereas this has long been the case. …”
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