ANTH 3348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Menstrual Taboo, Menstruation, Shia Islam

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Watch the history of the devil on youtube. A good example of which would be menstrual taboo . Douglas argued that objects or people are taboo when they are anomalous, when they fail to fit in. Dirt is not necessarily meant in an unhygienic sense, dirt is simply misplaced. Menstruation is often interpreted as a form of pollution: menstrual blood as dangerous, dirty, and polluting. Thomas buckley and alma gottleib wrote blood magic . The use of menstrual huts menstruating women being moved to different and separate dwellings. Certain cultures define this practice as rather negative women are isolated from the community for their pollution: while other cultures define the menstruation more positively, where it can be a liberating time-off for women. Menarche is sometimes celebrated in certain cultures. Chapter 9 of masqualier bauer: discusses the topic of corrupted alterities and body politics, in the text the chader is interpreted as being concealing and protecting of the inner-self.

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