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The Nacirema perform a mouth-rite, which involves placing hog hairs and magic powders into ones mouth. "...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 formatized series of gestures." ( Miner 3)

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The mouth-rite ritual- Horace Miner wrote about the Nacirema and about their mouth rite ritual. He says, “The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. 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.” (Miner paragraph 10).

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One of the rituals to clense the teeth, that is preformed daily, uses hog hairs and magical powder. "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." (Miner 3)

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Kristin crowell

Bake heads in oven
"1-2sent quote from text" (Miner 3).

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One of the rituals is a chest in the wall. Inside the chest are many charms and magical potions. This ritual is for one to heel. "The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built into a wall. In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live." Miner 2

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"The holy-mouth-man open the clients mouth and, using the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes which decay may have created in the teeth. Magical materials are put into these holes. 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. In the client's view, the purpose of these ministrations is to arrest decay and to draw friends. " (Horace Miner 3)

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"There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat." (Miner 18)
This is the people trying to get their body to the right and shape and have a perfect body.  People today go on diets and fast to lose weight, others eat more to gain weight.

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“  The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built into the wall. In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live. These preparations are secured from a variety of specialized practitioners. The most powerful of these are the medicine men, whose assistance must be rewarded with substantial gifts.  However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the ingredients should be and then write them down in an ancient and secret language. This writing is understood only by the medicine men and by the herbalists who, for another gift, provide the required charm. "  (Miner paragraph 6)

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They go to a medicine man and have their teeth filled with magical herbs. "The holy mouth man opens the clients mouth and, using the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes which decay may have created in the teeth. Magical materials are put into these holes." (Miner 3)

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Latipso ceremony
required to treat very sick patients and is only performed at the temple of the medicine men

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Insert hog hairs and magical powders into the mouth.
"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." (Miner 3)

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Medicine Man
"However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the ingredients should be and then write them down in an ancient and secret language. This writing is understood only by the medicine men and by the herbalists who, for another gift, provide the required charm." (Miner 2)

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Holy mouth men, "pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed that is to have a supernatural influnce on all social relationships".

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When people went to the medicine men they would get a paper with their perscription written on it in a secret launguage that they then brought to somene else to translate and tell them what they need.

"However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what ingrediants should be and then write them down in an ancient or secret language." (Miner 2)

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Poorer families imitate the rich by applying pottery plaques to their shrine wall (miner 2)

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"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."

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Women afflicted by inhuman hyper-mamrnary development make a great living by going from one village to another and charging a fee for natives to stare at the womans breasts.
"General dissatisfaction with breast shape is symbolized in the fact that ideal form is virtually outside the range of human variation. A few women afflicted with almost inhuman hyper-mamrnary developmentare so idolized that..." (Miner 4)

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They use magic to heal
" In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live"(miner 2)

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Nacirema Body Ritual (Yanelle Hernandez) 

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Nacirema Body Ritual (Yanelle Hernandez) 

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"The supplicant entering the temple is first stripped of all his or her clothes. [...] Bathing and excretory acts are performed only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualized as part of the body-rites" (Miner 4).

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"The people seek out a holy mouth man twice a year." (Miner 3)

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There is a ritual where peoples teeth are cleaned with the hairs from a hog which is done daily

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"Still other rites are used to make women's breasts larger if they are small and smaller if they are large" minor 4

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There is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their fiber "

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The Naciramas belived that "magical charms would help them if they were sick but these charms did nothing but give people false hope. "In this chest are kept magical charms which no native belives that he could live without."(Miner 2)

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"The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships. 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"(Miner2)

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In the hierarchy of magical practitioners, and below the medicine men in prestige, are specialist whose designation is best translated as "holy-mouth-men."

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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.

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As they look above they see magic.
"Looking from far above, from our high placesof safety and developed civilization, it is eazy to see all the crutidy and irrelevence of magic."

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“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.” ( Miner 4)

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Mouth-rite from holy mouth man

"In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or

twice a year. These practitioners

have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consisting of a variety of augers, awls, probes,

and prods." (Miner 3)

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One of the rituals is for families to bow before a charmbox each day. The box is usually overflowing or full. The charms inside are used for some ills. "The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine. 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."(Miner

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One of the rituals is for the families to bow before the charm box each day. The box is usually full or overflowing. The charms are used for ills. "The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine. 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" (Miner)