Article: The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. (Reviews).(Book Review)

By Valerlo Valeri.

Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. 2000.

Pp. xxiii +509

The Forest of Taboos is an ethnography of monumental proportions which not only provides a detailed account of taboo among the Huaulu people of the Moluccas but also takes the reader on an informed and entertaining journey through some of the key debates in anthropology over the past one hundred years. Valeri's eloquent book takes us beyond the realm of taboo as narrowly-defined by anthropologists to the shadowy world of the Huaulu forest hunters of Eastern Indonesia where the notion of maquwoli ('taboo') invades all facets of everyday life. Valeri ...

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