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Taboo

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First Aired: September 30th, 2002

Status: Ended

Genre: Documentary

Network: National Geographic

Summary: Taboo is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on the National Geographic Channel. The program is an educational look into "taboo" rituals and traditions practiced in some societies, yet forbidden and illegal in others. Each hour long episode details a specific topic, such as marriage or initiation rituals, and explores how such topics are viewed throughout the world. Taboo generally focuses on the most misunderstood, despised, or disagreed-upon activities, jobs, and roles.

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Season 3

Episode 1: Outcasts

Air Date: June 14th, 2004

Summary: Social pariahs are observed in a variety of cultures, including a village in Ghana where all the residents are witches banished from their home villages; lepers in Bangalore; gypsies in Romania; and a man who has undergone extreme plastic surgery.

Episode 2: Extreme Living

Air Date: June 30th, 2004

Summary: Included - a priest in India and his wife who live with thousands of rats in a temple. Also - Christmas is celebrated in a Florida nudist resort; Filipinos sleep in graveyards and share their homes with corpses.

Episode 3: Spirit Worlds

Air Date: July 7th, 2004

Summary: A look at the spirit world, and how it's represented in different cultures. Included - The Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia, where participants pierce themselves with steel skewers and hooks. Also - an exorcism in India; Santeria rituals in Cuba.

Episode 4: Extreme Cuisine

Air Date: July 14th, 2004

Summary: Unusual cuisine includes live octopus; bat with sago grubs; boiled and pickled duck fetus in the egg; tarantula tempura with crackling cockroach.

Episode 5: Extreme Childhood

Air Date: July 21st, 2004

Summary: An 8-year-old trains as a boxer in Thailand; a 4-year-old becomes a virgin goddess in Nepal; a 13-year-old plants dynamite in Bolivian mines.

Episode 6: Body Cutters

Air Date: July 28th, 2004

Summary: Body modifications include metal chest implants, tongue splitting, scarification and suspension on fishing hooks.

Episode 7: Body Art

Air Date: August 4th, 2004

Summary: Tattooing around the world. Included - a tattoo festival in Thailand; a young girl undergoes a painful full facial tattoo in Papua New Guinea; criminal record tattoos in Russia.

Episode 8: Gross Grub

Air Date: September 13rd, 2004

Summary: A look at unusual eats around the world, including rotten fish heads; grilled guinea pig; and cheese with maggots.

Episode 9: Rites of Manhood

Air Date: September 20th, 2004

Summary: Tests of manhood, including a scarification ritual, are examined.

Episode 10: Possessed

Air Date: October 4th, 2004

Summary: "Possessed" profiles trance dancers in Indonesia; a witch-hunting exorcist in Nepal; and Pentecostal Christians in the Appalachian region of the U.S.

Episode 11: Altered States

Air Date: October 4th, 2004

Summary: The use of mind-altering drugs is examined.

Episode 12: Gender Benders

Air Date: October 18th, 2004

Summary: People who push gender boundaries are profiled, including transvestites and eunuchs.

Episode 13: Blood Rites

Air Date: November 8th, 2004

Summary: Initiation rites and religious ceremonies involving blood include Muslims who flail themselves and a ritual of male adulthood in New Guinea. Also - vampirism in America.

Episode 14: Crime Scene

Air Date: January 27th, 2005

Summary: Included - a medical examiner autopsies human corpses. Also - a professional crime-scene cleaner in the Baltimore/Washington area; the Body Farm in Knoxville, where trainees observe human decomposition.

Episode 15: Gross Work

Air Date: January 27th, 2005

Summary: Jobs involving death, disease and pestilence.

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