Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Taboo



A taboo is an intense prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake, under threat of supernatural punishment.

Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies.

The word has been somewhat expanded in the social sciences to strong prohibitions relating to any area of human activity or custom that is sacred or forbidden based on moral judgement and religious beliefs.


 "Breaking a taboo" is usually considered objectionable by society in general, not merely a subset of a culture.

We choose the word taboo for our stimuli because we wanted to base our play on a topic which is not accepted in society and would be interesting to reach upon. We all agreed that we all wanted to learn something new and see it from perpetrators side. 


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