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“Intercourse is taboo” Linton 5

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One of the traditions that the Nacirema does is that they perform exerocisms. "This withcdoctor has the power to exorcise the devls that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched." Pg.4

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Women bake their heads in oven
"Special's women's rites are performed only four times during lunar month, but what they lack in frequency is made up in barbarity. As a part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for an hour." (Minor 3)

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Bake heads in oven
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"The use of these objects in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual toture of the client." Objects are augers, awls, probes, and prods

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"The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and  fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties  he can remember".

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The more elaborate ceremonies  required to treat very sick patients can only  be performed at this temple (Pg 3).

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A ritual "consisting of  inserting small bundles of hog hairs in there mouth alomg with certain magical powders then move the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures"

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Ritual abolution of the mouth for children
"They also believe that a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics. For example, there is a ritual abolution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber." (Pg.2)

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Men cuttting their face with sharp objects daily as a body ritual
"This part of the rite involves scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument" (Miner 3)

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Latipso
"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." (Page 3)

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Each household has one or more shrines devoted to the purpose of rituals.
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Hog hair in Mouths
" 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, p.2)

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The medicine men has an imposing temple or called a latipso. Ceremonies required to treat sick people need to go to this temple and perform there. (Pg.3)

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Medicine man & temple
"The medicine men have an imposing temple or latipso in every communtiy" (minor 3)

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When pregnant, women dress so as to hide their condition. Parturition takes place in secret, without friends or relatives to assist, and the majority of women do not nurse their infants.  (Page5/paragraph1)

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"women bake their heads  in small ovens for about an hour."

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"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." (Minor 3)

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Doctors getting paid "The most powerful of these are the medicene men whose assistance must be rewarded with substancial rewards." (Minor 2)

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There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and  ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat. (Miner 4)

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Collecting Shrines
"The more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in the their household".
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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."(pg 2)

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

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"One has but to watch the gleam of the holy mouth men, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve […]" paragraph 12

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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"

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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."pg2

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Men and women strip thier clothes off before entering temple

"The supplicant entering the temple is  first stripped of all his or her clothes. In everyday life the Nacirema avoids exposure  of his body and its natural functions. Bathing and excretory acts are performed  only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualized as part of the  body-rites."(pg.4)

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Magical materials are put into these holes.

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