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Essay Galaxy - 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....
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Number Of Words: 506 |
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