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There remains one other kind of practitioner, known as a "listener." This witchdoctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched. The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children.Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witchdoctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and fears,
(Pg4)

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"Special women's rites are only performed only four times during a lunar month... as a part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour." (Miner, 3)

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"The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror and facination with the mouth, the conditions of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships"(Minor 9)

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There is a shrine box where people would put special objects into this box, and each day , every memeber of the family would take turns with mingling with the box. And each person would have a sertain amount of time to do so. " beneath the charm box is a small font. Each day every memeber of the family in succession enters the shrine room bows his head before the charm box, mingles with the diffrent sorts of holy water in the font and proceeds with a brief rite of abulation. "

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Believing in the medicine men

"The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and
may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people's faith in the medicine men" (Miner 4)

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" If there age no naturally occurring holes in the teeth, large sections of one or more teeth are gouged out so that the supernatural substance can be applied."

(Miner ³⁾

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"The medicine men have an imposing temple, or latipso, in every community of any size. The more elaborate ceremonies required to treat very sick patients can only be performed at the temple." (Miner 3)

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"It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures (Miner 3)."

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Mouth rite ritual
It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures. (Page 3)

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The "listener"

"This witchdoctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched"

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The medicine men have an imposing  temple, or latipso, in every community of  any size. The more elaborate ceremonies  required to treat very sick patients can only  be performed at this temple. These ceremonies involve not only the thaumaturge  but a permanent group of vestal maidens  who move sedately about the temple  chambers in distinctive costume and head-  dress.

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"The medicine men af an opposing temple, or latipso, in any community of every size. The more elaborate ceremonies required to treat very sick patients can only be performed at this temple." (Minor 3)

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The latipso ceremonies are so harsh that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of the really sick natives who enter the temple The concept of culture even recover
(Minor 3)

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"The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine."(Miner 2)

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"The holy waters are secured from the Water Temple of the community, where the priests conduct elaborate ceremonies to  make the liquid ritually pure. " (Body Ritural Among the Nacrimena by Horance Miner)

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"In everyday life the nacirema avoids exposure of his body and its natrual functions"
(Minor 4)

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Medichine cabinet
"As these magical materials are specific for certain ills, and the real or imagined maladies of the people are many, the charm-box is usually full to overflowing. The magical packets are so numerous that people forget what their purposes were and fear to use them again. "(Miner 2)

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The culture i chose was excretory acts. Excretory asked are performed only in the secrecy of the household shrine in every day life the Nacirema aviods exposure of the body and natural function.

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"The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony."

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"The holy waters are secured from the Water Temple of the community, where the priests make the liquid ritually pure." (Miner 2)

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"Were it not for the rituals of the  mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers  reject them."  (Miner 2)

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Magical potions without which no native belives he could live .
These preparations are secured from a variety of specialized practitioners . The most powerful of these are the medice mene , whose assistenc must be rewarded with substantial gifts. However , the medicine men  do not provide the potions they just tell what have to be in it .

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"There remains one other kind of practitioner, known as a "listener." This witchdoctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched. The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children. Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witchdoctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties he can remember. The memory displayed by the Nacirerna in these exorcism sessions is truly remarkable. It is not uncommon for the patient to bemoan the rejection he felt upon being weaned as a babe, and a few individuals even see their troubles

going back to the traumatic effects of their own birth." (Page 4)

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The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth rite. (Miner 3)

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"There remains one other kind of practitioner, known as a "listener." This witchdoctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched. The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children. Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witchdoctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties he can remember. The memory displayed by the Nacirerna in these exorcism sessions is truly remarkable." (Minor, 4)

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"The medicine men have an imposing  temple, or latipso, in every community of  any size. The more elaborate ceremonies  required to treat very sick patients can only  be performed at this temple."

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Shrines
"Bathing and excretory acts are performed  only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualized as part of the  body-rites."
Minor 4

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The holy mouth man

The holy mouth man is something that the nacirema. They perform mouth rituals. The nacirema believe the if they don't perform mouth rituals they will bleed fron their mouth, teeth will fall out, and their jaws shrinks.

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Beneath the charm-box is a small font

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"As part of this ceromony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour."  (Miner 3).

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"There are ritual fasts to make  fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to  make thin people fat. Still other rites are  used to make women's breasts larger if they  are small, and smaller if they are large.  General dissatisfaction with breast shape is symbolized in the fact that the ideal form is virtually outside the range of human variation."

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The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony. Every household has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose.