Tapu or Taboo - Medicine Amongst the Maoris, in Ancient and Modern Times

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Tapu or Taboo - Medicine Amongst the Maoris, in Ancient and Modern Times

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Tapu, in the form of "taboo" is one of the few words which the English has derived from the Polynesian language. It has come to have a far wider and vaguer meaning than the word "tapu" ever conveyed to the Maori. To the English it conveys a prohibition. To quote Andrew Lang, "In anthropological language, taboo generally denotes something more th...

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Te Rangi Hiroa

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