Motif
birth taboo and reproductive abstinence
birth_taboo_and_reproductive_abstinence
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI; lines 4938-5034 confidence: high
Chapter heading names birth customs, couvade, and initiation; the discussion states that families usually have two or three children and that husbands abstain from intercourse during pregnancy and lactation, spacing births.
The passage describes abstinence during pregnancy and lactation and additional restrictions connected to childbirth.
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