Word: forbiddenness
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...work through a translator--sometimes two, in the case of especially rare dialects. Being female has made it easier to gain access to rites that outsiders rarely witness. Notes Fisher: "We're less threatening to the women, and we're able to see female rites that men would be forbidden to see." They're less threatening to men as well, and as a result have gained access to such rites as Maasai circumcisions and the male passage to adulthood in Benin...
...teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds. Sponsorship at sporting events would be forbidden. Likewise tobacco-brand-name logos on products such as hats, T shirts and gym bags...
...Lakota teens swim and toast s'mores over the campfire. But these kids, most of them recruited from troubled reservation towns, are trying to break a grim cycle of alcoholism and despair by living as their forebears did: sleeping in teepees, traveling on horseback and learning their once forbidden language and ceremonies from tribal elders. "This camp is more than a camp," says Gregg Bourland, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. "In a way it is the rebirth of the Great Sioux Nation...
...according to one summer school proctor, the initial penalties have been working. The proctor said there have been no incidents of vandalism since non-residents were forbidden to enter the dorm...
During the first years of his imprisonment for leftist views by the military regime of General Suharto, Pramoedya, as the 71-year-old writer is known, was forbidden to have books and writing materials. The prohibition (enforced for all jailed intellectuals) was deadly serious, and at his hard-labor camp on the island of Buru some prisoners who violated it were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could...