Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (1956)

Professor Linton[2] first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention of anthropologists twenty years ago, but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. Incarcerated in such a body, man’s only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual and ceremony. While the natives are very vague on this point, we can only assume that the idea in retaining all the old magical materials is that their presence in the charm-box, before which the body rituals are conducted, will in some way protect the worshiper.

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