One essay contrasts economically responsible "haters" restricted by a type of this concept with "lovers" such as New Guinea's Maring people. A type of this concept is used to distinguish from blessed "noa" states. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and Maimonides' dismissal of these concepts is criticized in a Mary Douglas book promoting their use in creating "symbolic" structures. A type of this concept is the driving force for exogamy in Claude Levi-Strauss' alliance theory. Complex sign languages among Warlpiri and Warumungu Aboriginal groups are believed to derive from avoidance of these concepts. Nepalese chhaupadi huts (CHOW-pah-dee) are traditionally used to isolate women enforced this type of concept on menstruation due to its perceived impurity. For 10 points, give this term for societally prohibited behaviors deemed repulsive or sacrilegious, such as cannibalism or incest. ■END■
ANSWER: taboo [or tapu; prompt on kapu; prompt on answers describing the prohibition or restriction of pork, speech, or incest; prompt on laws against uncleanliness or impurity or clear equivalents until "impurity" is mentioned] [The first line refers to Marvin Harris' "Pig Lovers and Pig Haters"]
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