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  • TABOO

  • Tuesday 21 May at 11:00PM
  • National Geographic Channel

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Exotic culture lures and engages our imagination. But the mysteries within each culture often seem too dangerous, too cursed, too renegade or too sacred for our everyday sensibilities. Through our rituals, we celebrate birth and death, prepare for travel, marriage or conquest, unleash the power to heal and transform ourselves, and enter into another world. A world where daily rules no longer apply, where witches, spirits, and shamans dwell -the world of taboo. Taboo, tapu, or tabu.... no matter how you spell it, the Polynesian word conjures up images of cultures that transcend this mundane life for the "other world". But is that all? Taboo is anything banned by social custom, any way of being or practice deemed unacceptable for one group or another. Behavior once commonplace, rituals that once defined and preserved a culture, which have now been forbidden, or gone underground. This is the world of Taboo -secret, sacred, off the grid, and yet, part of the everyday experience of humanity.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Taboo: Secret Lives
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 27 May at 2:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  • Taboo: Freaky Remedies
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 23 May at 12:00PM - National Geographic Channel
    Repeats:  
    Monday 27 May at 12:00PM - National Geographic Channel

  • Taboo: Booze
    It's mankind's oldest intoxicant. But alcohol is also the drug that kills more people than any other. From Labor Day weekend parties in Arizona to binge-drinking resorts in Spain, alcohol shapes the lives of those who drink it in ways that can be heart-breaking and deadly.
  • Taboo: Extreme Fighting
  • Taboo: Teen Sex
    Next Showing:  
    Sunday 26 May at 11:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  • Taboo: Strange Behavior
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