Taboo Episode Guide
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- Episode Guide 62 episodes
Episode Guide
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After Death
Cultural dealings with dead bodies.
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Bizarre Bodies
The lengths people will go to to change their looks.
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Blood Bonds
Unusual definitions of family.
Monday 14th December 5:00am EST - National Geographic Channel -
Bloodsports
Lure and horror of ritualized violence.
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Body Art
The art, meaning and mystery of tattoos.
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Body Cutters
People who reshape their bodies by extremes.
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Body Extremes
An Australian health therapist drinks his own urine; men and women in the Philippines sell their kidneys to wealthy foreigners; a woman in Papua New Guinea breast-feeds a pig.
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Body Perfect
Methods for achieving beauty.
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Child Rearing
Child rearing techniques around the world.
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Creature Cures
Using creatures like leeches, baboon claws and bees to cure common ailments.
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Crime Scene
People deal with the aftermath of fatal crimes.
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Delicacies
Food delicacies from around the world.
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Drugs
The societal impact of mind-altering drug use.
Saturday 12th December 1:00pm EST - National Geographic Channel -
Drugs
Some cultures incorporate mind-altering drugs into social and religious life.
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Evil Spirits
Good vs. evil spirits.
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Extreme Childhood
Indian children participate in a self-mutilation ritual; young children kickbox for extra income for their families in Thailand; a 5 year-old continues to be breast fed.
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Extreme Cuisine
Food delicacies from around the world.
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Extreme Eats
What one can eat may be nothing more than mind over matter.
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Extreme Entertainers
Determining the line at which entertainment becomes grotesque.
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Extreme Healing
Stepping beyond the bounds of modern science to place health in the hands of the spirit world.
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Extreme Living
People who live in extreme conditions.
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Extreme Punishment
The lengths some societies go to to punish a crime.
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Extreme Rituals
Young men leap head-first from a 70-foot tower in a potentially deadly ritual; a girl tattoos her face before marriage as part of her transition to womanhood; a 70-year-old man participates in a bloodletting ceremony.
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Food
What humans eat.
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Gender Benders
People who cross the gender lines.
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Gross Grub
People eat cheese crawling with maggots, rotten fish heads, grilled guinea pig and eyeballs, blood and brains.
Monday 7th December 4:00am EST - National Geographic Channel -
Gross Work
People who make a living doing uncommon jobs.
Monday 14th December 4:00am EST - National Geographic Channel -
Healers
Some unorthodox healing practices go beyond science.
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Initiation
Boys in Brazil put their hands in gloves filled with fire ants; boys have whipping competitions in West Africa; a woman in South Korea must become a shaman to save her life.
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Initiation Rituals
Some people perform extreme acts to be accepted and to prove their worth.
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Jobs
Some jobs are so disgusting that few people are willing to do them.
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Justice
Abandoning modern systems of justice for older and more controversial methods.
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Looks That Kill
Joan Bakewell continues her examination of censorship with an exploration of violence, using excerpts from film and television. Recent decades have witnessed some of the most extreme violent acts ever, raising the question of whether society has become desensitised to the unsavoury aspects of life portrayed on screen
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Marked for Life
The lengths which people will go to identify with their community through skin markings.
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Marks of Identity
Extreme tactics people use to distinguish themselves as part of a group.
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Marriage
Acceptable marriage practices based on culture.
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Mating
Some people go to extreme lengths to find mates.
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Nudity
Shedding clothes as an act of expression or liberation, and even as a means of worship.
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Outcasts
People who have been cast out of their community.
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Outsiders
Every society contains people who live on the fringe, either by force or by choice, and must suffer the consequences.
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Pets
The devoted and bizarre world of pet ownership.
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Proving Ground
Measuring people's worth by the ability to overcome the fight-or-flight instinct.
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Quest for Acceptance
Students of human behavior and cultural norms provide perspectives on extreme rites and tests of faith from around the world.
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Rites of Manhood
People jump naked over the backs of 30 cows, undergo sex-change surgeries, or slice and scar their upper bodies to resemble crocodiles in order to be considered men.
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Rites of Passage
Cultural practices guiding people into the next phase of life.
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Sacred Pain
Self-mutilation in the name of faith.
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Sex
Love and lovability may differ from one society to another.
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Sexual Identity
Some people go through their life feeling they were born the wrong gender.
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Sexuality
Boundaries between what is man and what is woman.
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Signs of Identity
Different ways individuals express themselves through their bodies.
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Skin Deep
Repeatedly cutting skin to create the effect of crocodile skin; a tribe of people's belief in physical perfection is so deep that some individuals kill their babies.
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Spilling Blood
Animal sacrifice in Nepal; the traditional whale-slaughtering tradition, Grind, in Denmark; cockfighting in Bali.
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Spirit World
Extreme measures people go to in order to get in touch with a higher spirit.
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Supreme Devotion
Some religions measure piety by physical suffering and self-inflicted pain.
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Tattoo
A look at what permanent skin art symbolises to different cultures all over the world
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Tests of Faith
Extreme tests of faith.
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The Third Sex
Some interpret sexuality as cultural or genetic.
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Touching Death
A man evicts bodies from rented burial plots in Manila; an autopsy entrepreneur contracts out his services; a woman performs Buddhist rituals at the scene of a fatal car accident.
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Trial by Fire
Many traditional cultures require boys to pass through initiations of pain and fear in order to become men.
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Trials of Faith
Extreme rituals for testing one's faith.
Monday 7th December 5:00am EST - National Geographic Channel -
Voodoo
West Africa is the birthplace of voodoo.
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Witchcraft
Supernatural powers.
