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miliar, heimisch, noting that "the prefix un is the token of repression." This token of repression springs to my mind when I come across a peculiar and frequently mentioned but never developed feature in Cuna ethnography, namely the powerful taboos existing with respect to representation of "sex" and birth, especially birth. For reasons he finds inexplicable, Chapin for instance notes that the Origin Histories whi