Body rituals among the nacirema paper

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Subject Area:Anthropology

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According to Miner, the Nacirema believed that the human body is ill-favored, physically weak and with a natural tendency to disease, and the only way of averting them was through powerful influences of ritual and ceremony. The ritlas and ceremonies were usually performed at shrines. The shrines were small chests built into the wall in a special room in their houses for the many charms and magical potions. These charms and magical portions were prepared by different the medicine men for different purposes at the cost of substantial gifts. The cleansing rituals include the daily mouth-rite ritual performed by everyone where an individual would be inserted bundles of hog hairs and magical portions into their mouth and then removing the bundle in highly mystical signaling.

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