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11 “When dinner came on table not one of my guests would sit down or eat a bit of any thing that was there. Every one was Tabu, a word of very comprehensive meaning but in general signifies forbidden.”Cook 1967, p. 129 . . . “In this walk we met with about half a dozen Women in one place at supper, two of the Company were fed by the others, on our asking the reason, they said Tabu Mattee. On further enquiry, found that one of them had, two months before, washed the dead corps of a Chief, on which account she was not to handle Victuals for five Months, the other had done the same thing to another of inferior rank, and was under the same restriction but not for so long a time”. Cook 1967, p. 135 In this citation, Cook uses the word “tabu” to describe the behavior of the native inhabitants toward things that were not to be done or touched. Cook also states that anything which is forbidden to be eaten are called Taboo, as when people are forbidden to eat from the flesh of human sacrifices Tangata Taboo Cook, 1967, p. 176. For the other example related to this kind of prohibition, there are food taboos in most societies and they are mostly religion-based taboo; the vegetarianism of Hindus; the proscription of pork in Islam; the constraints on food preparation in Judaism; fasting among Jews at Passover and Muslims during Ramadan; the proscription of meat on Fridays among Roman Catholics Allan Burridge, 2006, p. 4. Freud 2004, p. 3 digs out the origin of taboo by observing the ancient Aboriginal Australian’s way of life. This tribe upholds totemism as their system of tribal life. Each clan, the smaller division of the tribe, has different symbols of totem. The totem symbolized by the clan functions as a sign to prevent incest 12 among the same totemic clan. In other words, marrying or having sexual intercourse with the same member of the clan is prohibited. The totem itself could be animals, plants, or natural phenomena which are believed to have spiritual power which protecting the clans from danger. The member of the clan must not use the totem for hisher own benefit, destroy it, kill it, eat its flesh, in order to avoid the consecutive sanction. By this observation, Freud then claims that taboo is showed in the act of prohibition and restriction. Continuing Allan and Burridge’s findings, it is stated that there are taboos in which uncleanliness are the motivating factor. Here are some instances for this kind of taboo: many communities regarded physical contact with a menstruating woman as taboo, believing that it will pollute males in particular. Some Orthodox New York Jews will avoid public transport in order to avoid the seat where a menstruating woman has ever sat before. The Balinese used to prefer one-story buildings in order to avoid unclean feet would pass above their heads. These Balinese also avoid walking under washing lines where garments that have been in contact with unclean parts of the body might pass over their heads. Many communities regarded contact with a corpse as taboo; whoever has touched the cadaver is prohibited to handle food 2006, p. 5-7. Allan and Burridge 2006 also state that the genital organs of humans are always the subject of taboo. Those parts of women are usually more strongly tabooed than those parts of men. The reason is because those parts are related to the source of new human life p. 7. Foucault 1978, p. 3 explains that sex is prohibited and defined as taboo by Victorian regime. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the theme PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI