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The incest taboo common social rule
What rules shaped humanity's original social networks? Researchers in Japan developed new mathematical models to understand what conditions produced traditional community structures and conventions around the world, including taboos about incest. Experts in anthropology consider the incest taboo to be an extremely common social rule affecting kinship...
Read moreIt is an expression of ritual purity and the caste identity by dominant caste Hindus.
Menstrual taboo is a challenge for women in Indian society as we are an unequal and diverse society. But, menstrual taboo doesn’t subjugate all women in the same way. While the caste Hindu women suffer the taboo on speechifying menstruation itself,...
Faith Isn’t Taboo Anymore: Brands Take Note
When Chick-fil-A announced in late November that it would stop donating to faith-based organizations, I was confused. After all, just six...
Legal commentators have observed that in Thailand, more people should seek advice about their wills.
Thailand rang in 2020 with an effort to tackle the plastic crisis filling the country's waste sites and choking its...
Durex condom brand’s new ad campaign on female orgasm has triggered debate on a taboo in Pakistan?. Startup Founders See Cultural Taboo As Opportunity.
Baloch females were never allowed to perform in films because it is considered socially taboo in society. Such films are very...
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The government has launched a public awareness campaign to make plastic bags taboo. It has...
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Breaking The Silence
Breaking The Silence uses machine learning methods to understand what are the contemporary taboo topics. It aims to highlight and bring to focus what topics are currently discussed as taboos. The generated summarizations underline the different topics discussed at different times and additionally the arguments for the creation, maintenance, or destruction of a taboo. Learn more.
