{"product_id":"forest-of-taboos-valerio-valeri-9780299162146","title":"Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Forest of Taboos\u003c\/i\u003e may be considered among the most important books ever written by an anthropologist. Valeri writes superbly, and this book makes a fundamental contribution to one of the most central lines of thought in twentieth-century anthropology. He shows that taboo is finally comprehensible.\"--John Stephen Lansing, University of Michigan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Forest of Taboos\u003c\/i\u003e is no conventional ethnography, more an extended meditative essay on its subject, erudite, rich in ideas and data, wide-ranging in its theoretical inspiration, and self-consciously literary in form. It is a fitting memorial to an author whose life was so tragically cut short.\"--Roy Ellen, University of Kent at Canterbury \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This eloquent and profound book, completed by Valerio Valeri shortly before his death in 1998, contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death, and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. In elegant prose, Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, forest hunters of Indonesia. The hidden attractions of the animal world, which invades the human world in perilous ways, he shows, also delineate that which the Huaulu regard as most human about themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerio Valeri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299162141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299162146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2000 pg. 574","brand":"Valerio Valeri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995508801791,"sku":"9780299162146","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61d3a0c5-9bec-4892-8794-5fa3a55a3603.jpg?v=1683336218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forest-of-taboos-valerio-valeri-9780299162146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}