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Despite this, though, the threat to the "tambu" - tent talkies -- looms larger every year.
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Trees, such as the candlenut and the red-leaved dracaena, and odoriferous shrubs were planted round the enclosure; and outside of it, to the west of the Holy of Holies, was a bell-roofed hut called _Vale tambu_, the Sacred House or Temple.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Islands and the New Hebrides the word taboo (_tambu_ or _tapu_) signifies a sacred and unapproachable character which is imposed on certain things by the arbitrary will of a chief or other powerful man.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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_Vale tambu_ or God's House, and there presented as a _soro_, or offering of atonement, in order that his father or father's brother might be made whole.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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He speaks of only two inner compartments, which he calls the Holy of Holies (_Nanga tambu-tambu_) and the Middle Nanga (_Loma ni Nanga_), but the latter name appears to imply a third compartment, which is explicitly mentioned and named by Mr. Fison.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Once a sanctuary has been established, everything within it becomes sacred (_tambu_) and belongs to the ghost.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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If we shut down our tambu cinemas, regional cinema will find no audience since they don't show these films at multiplexes in the city, he added, referring to the fact that local language films are also shown.
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"There were around 50 such tambu talkies in Satara district 10 years ago, but today only seven or eight are left," said Jaywant Thorat, 45, the owner of Ayodhya Talkies.
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Traveling cinemas were for more than 60 years the only way residents of rural India could watch movies, but this tradition of the "tambu talkies" is slowly fading away in the face of competition from cable TV, bootleg DVDs and other modern forms of entertainment that have made their way into villages.
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They either have some for planting or will direct you to whom they got the topi tambu from.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Shirley-Hall 2008
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(like taboo)
"At one village she and her bearers were asked to leave because there was to be a feast and dance that evening, which were tambu, or forbidden, for outsiders to witness."
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2006), 5
February 18, 2009