Article: The forest of taboos: morality, hunting and identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. (Social Anthropology).

VALERI, VALERIO. The forest of taboos: morality, hunting and identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. xxiii, 509 pp., illus., bibliogr Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press, 2000

Students of Southeast Asia and Oceania should already be familiar with Valeri's exemplary work on Hawaiian kingship and sacrifice and his several articles on the Huaulu people of eastern Indonesia. Completed just before his untimely death in 1998, this remarkable book provides a profound and comprehensive analysis of 'taboo' that is thoroughly grounded in the author's extensive knowledge of, and instense involvement with, a small group of forest hunters on the Indonesian island of Seram. ...

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