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During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, contact with the cultures of Polynesia and Melanesia aroused interest in the comparative study of cultures by scholars such as Edward Burnett Tylor and James George Frazer. Words such as taboo entered English in that way. It refers to what is set apart for the use of a god, king, priest, or chief, or prohibited for some other reason.
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