Speaker’s Book

• 1984, by George Orwell

Captain Cook: The Taboos of Tonga-tapu

Print:

• The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World, by Captain James Cook (Online on Google Play)
• An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, by William Mariner (Online at Archive.org)
• The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, by Gananath Obeyesekere
• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, by Tony Horwitz

Online:

• A Cook’s Tour of Tonga – Captain Cook Society
• Captain Cook’s Fatal Third Voyage – National Maritime Museum
• Taboo (musings on ‘taboo’ and how Captain Cook introduced it to the English language) – Exhile’s Bazaar

Damnatio Memoriae: a Punishment Worse Than Death

Print:

• Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, by CH Roehrig, R Dreyfus, CA Keller 
• Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, by Erik Hornung
• The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings, by Richard H. Wilkinson

 Online:

• Akhenaten – Encyclopedia Britannica
• Amun – Ancient Egypt Online
• Hatshepsut: First Female Pharoah – Live Science
• The Rediscovery of Akhenaten and His Place in Religion –  Erik Hornung  

Porcine Prohibition: a Portrait of Pigs as Unpalatable Pariahs Through History

Print:

• Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig, by Mark Essig

Online:

• The Pig and the Chicken in the Middle East: Modeling Human Subsistence Behavior in the Archaeological Record Using Historical and Animal Husbandry Data – Journal of Archaeological Research
• Pigs in Ancient Egypt – Marie Parsons
• Pig Taboos in the Ancient near East – Koot van Wyk

In Search of Ladies’ Toilets in Victorian London 

Print:

• Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth, by Lee Jackson
• The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by Rose George
• How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life, by Ruth Goodman

Online:

• Bethnal Green Vestry report 1878 – Wellcome Library
• Flush It: the Arrival of the Modern Toilet – Sheena M. Morrison
• Toilets at the Great Exhibition
• Want to live in a toilet? London’s public lavatories get a make-over – Francesca Street, CNN
• A World of Unmentionable Suffering: Women’s Public Conveniences in Victorian London – Barbara Penner

Forbidden Soviet Science

Print:

• The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century, by Peter Pringle
• From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics, by Slava Gerovitch
• Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics, by Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

Online:

• How the Computer Got its Revenge on the Soviet Union – Slava Gerovitch
• Human Genetics in Troubled Times and Places – Hereditas
• The Soviet InterNyet: How the Soviets Invented the Internet and Why it Didn’t Work – Aeon

That Which Must Not Be Named: Euphemism & Dysphemism

Print:

• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, by James George Frazer
• Totem and Taboo, by Sigmund Freud
• Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language, by Keith Allan, Kate Burridge
• Slang and Euphemism, by Richard A. Spears

Online:

• 5 Examples of Taboo Language From Around the World
• Hlonipha – Cultural Aspects (Mother-in-law Speech)
• The Sociohistory of Clicks in Southern Bantu – Robert K. Herbert

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Frederic ‘Lightning’ Leist, Tamar Baskind , Michelle Larson, Barbara North, Leonard Apeltsin, and Schuyler Erle. Thank you!