Perspectives On Society And Culture

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Term Paper Title	Perspectives On Society And Culture
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Perspectives on Society and Culture

Perspectives on Society and Culture

     It is very difficult as a reader to make any sense of the rituals
performed by the Nacirema. The Nacirema are a people who stress the importance
of physical wellness and go to great and to the outsider horrific lengths to
ensure this.
        A professor Linton was the first to shed light on the particularly
bizarre lifestyle that is lived by the Nacirema. Physical wellness being so
heavily stressed is not the bizarre aspect, it is the spiritual sense and
seemingly blind faith they put into their beliefs that is bewildering. These
people believe the human body is ugly and that it breeds disease. The Nacirema
pray daily through a private shrine in there house to , what seems to me cleanse
and prevent, what to them lurks and breeds in our body. It is believed by the
people that there is magical forces possesed in a chest in the shrine. These
forces or magic is supplied through text by a medicine man who holds very high
stature among the Nacirema. One part of the body that is seen to be excpecially
unholy is the mouth. One major part of the cleansing of the mouth is done once
or twice a year by the” holy mouth men”.
        This is where the man uses exotic instruments to open holes larger in
decaying teeth or even healthy teeth. The teeth, with nerve exposed, are stuffed
with”magical”material to arrest...

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