Taboo

Taboo

Extreme Rituals (5x13)


Air date: Nov 24, 2008

Rituals that mark the passage from one phase of life to another are examined. Included: boys leap headfirst from a 70-foot-tall tower on an island in the South Pacific; a young girl tattoos her face before marriage in Papua New Guinea; a man in West Africa participates in a bloodletting ceremony that will ready him for priesthood.

  • Premiered: Sep 2002
  • Episodes: 117
  • Followers: 26
  • Ended
  • National Geographic
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