Abstract:Among Datooga pastoralists of Tanzania, an elaborate in-law naming taboo has led to the emergence of a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary used by married women. We report on a survey investigating Datooga children's knowledge of this special vocabulary. The questionnaire and our expectations were pre-registered and the results were analyzed using regression analysis. Though use of the avoidance vocabulary is gender-specific, girls were only slightly more knowledgeable than boys about avoidance words. More p… Show more
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