Totem & Taboo Flashcards

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Manitou

A

Personal animal figure

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Taboo

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Forbidden thing

Prohibitions on actions , such as food clothing

Prohibitions on association such as friendships intercourse marriage

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Kashrut

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The things are Jews can eat such as pig sea life and in anything slaughtered

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Carnival mardi grass

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Celebration of eating meat for the last time do to lent they will go six weeks without eating meat

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5
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Hindus

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Caste priest , Warriors farmers merchants, menial laborers , the unclean

Food laws – cow is holy, Brahmin eat pakka
Everyone else kacca
Untouchables jutha

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Fetish

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Meant African or Polynesian charm with magical energy, a totem as a form of a fetish

Totem : animal ancestor of a tribe

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