Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture

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Ray Broadus Browne
Popular Press, 1984 - 192 páginas
This volume examines the concept of taboos and tabooism and a dozen powerful ones in our society and suggests the control they exert on our everyday lives.
 

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Introduction
1
Shame as Taboo in American Culture
57
A Tankard of Sporting Taboos
97
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Ray Browne was born in Millport, Alabama, in 1922, and was educated at the University of Alabama, Columbia University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. As founder of the Popular Culture Association (1970) and of the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green University. Browne was an early advocate of applying serious study to popular culture. Roy B. Browne died on October 22, 2009.

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