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Further Reading: TABOO

“Supplice Sandwichien” or Ordeal of the Sandwich Islands, depicting a Hawaiian sacrifice; by Jacques Arago and by N. Maurin c. 1820

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  • 1984, by George Orwell

Captain Cook: The Taboos of Tonga-tapu

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Damnatio Memoriae: a Punishment Worse Than Death

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

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In Search of Ladies’ Toilets in Victorian London 

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Forbidden Soviet Science

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That Which Must Not Be Named: Euphemism & Dysphemism

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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!