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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47857| Title: | Woman and taboo in Malta (3) : the touch taboo |
| Authors: | Zarb, Tarcisio |
| Keywords: | Sex discrimination -- Malta Young women -- Malta -- History Sex customs -- Malta Menstruation -- Folklore -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1983 |
| Publisher: | Gulf Publishing Ltd. |
| Citation: | Zarb, T. (1983). Woman and taboo in Malta (3) : the touch taboo. Civilization, 11, 302-303. |
| Abstract: | Beliefs in the harmful influence of a menstruating woman are widely held not solely among nonliterate societies but also in Western "civilized" countries. The attainment of reproductive power, which is marked by physical and physiological changes is a dangerous state not solely to themselves, but also to others. Anthropology affords numerous examples of taboos, which are mainly based on the psychological reactions produced in man by these physical and physiological changes. These have evoked feelings of repulsion, awe and even hostility. The terms "unclean" and "defilement" show unmistakable traces of the thought idiom and worldview of the nonliterate man. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47857 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCWHMlt |
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