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Gohatto (御法度), also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century. The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere. [1]
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people. [1] [2] Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. [1]
Ōhashi, Ohashi or Oohashi (written: 大橋 lit. "large bridge") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Akira Ohashi (born 1968), Japanese actor
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Traditional knowledge can also reflect a community's interests. Some communities depend on their traditional knowledge for survival. Traditional knowledge regarding the environment, such as taboos, proverbs and cosmological knowledge systems, may provide a conservation ethos for biodiversity preservation. [9]
Katelyn Michelle Ohashi (born April 12, 1997) is an American gymnast [1] who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a six-time All-American and was a four-time member of USA Gymnastics ' Junior National Team, the 2011 junior national champion, [ 2 ] and the winner of the 2013 American Cup .
A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples in many parts of the world, including the indigenous peoples of northern Australia, [1] Siberia, Southern India, the Sahara, Subsaharan Africa, and the Americas.
Anthropologists also study different marital taboos across cultures, most commonly the incest taboo of marriage within sibling and parent-child relationships. It has been found that all cultures have an incest taboo to some degree, but the taboo shifts between cultures when the marriage extends beyond the nuclear family unit. [34]