Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt.

“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellecutally challenging.” • American Anthropologist

• List of IllustrationsContents of Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSFranz Steiner. A MemoirMary DouglasAn Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: TABOOChapter 1. The Discovery of TabooChapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I)Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II)Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson SmithChapter 5. Taboo and ContagionChapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy'Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and FrazerChapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, MarettChapter 9. Taboo as Negative ManaChapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-BrownChapter 11. Wundt and FreudChapter 12. The Problem of TabooBibliography. Reviews of TabooPART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTHHow to Define Superstition?Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16Chagga Law and Chagga TruthBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volume ISubject Index to Volume II

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt.

“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellecutally challenging.” • American Anthropologist

• List of IllustrationsContents of Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSFranz Steiner. A MemoirMary DouglasAn Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: TABOOChapter 1. The Discovery of TabooChapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I)Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II)Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson SmithChapter 5. Taboo and ContagionChapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy'Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and FrazerChapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, MarettChapter 9. Taboo as Negative ManaChapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-BrownChapter 11. Wundt and FreudChapter 12. The Problem of TabooBibliography. Reviews of TabooPART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTHHow to Define Superstition?Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16Chagga Law and Chagga TruthBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volume ISubject Index to Volume II

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specializes ininterdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. He is currently preparing a collected edition of Franz Steiner's poetry for theGerman Academy of Language and Literature, Darmstadt.

“These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellecutally challenging.” • American Anthropologist

• List of IllustrationsContents of Volume IIAcknowledgementsA Note on QuotationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONSFranz Steiner. A MemoirMary DouglasAn Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann SteinerJeremy Adler and Richard FardonPART II: TABOOChapter 1. The Discovery of TabooChapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I)Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II)Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson SmithChapter 5. Taboo and ContagionChapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy'Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and FrazerChapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, MarettChapter 9. Taboo as Negative ManaChapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-BrownChapter 11. Wundt and FreudChapter 12. The Problem of TabooBibliography. Reviews of TabooPART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTHHow to Define Superstition?Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16Chagga Law and Chagga TruthBibliography and References to Volumes I and IIName Index to Volume ISubject Index to Volume II