Summary Of Body Ritual Among The Nacirema

The article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the characterizes of the Naciremas, a North American group of people. Their lives are dedicating to their charm-box in which is a major need for them to complete their rituals and everyday life. Each house has a charm-box or a treasure chess in these they place their charms and medicines and magical materials that they believe in. Their daily mores they do is that every day each member of the family enters the shrines room and bow their head before the charms box, then they go to the priest and conducts a ceremony to make the liquid referring to their holy water for their rituals pure. For example, one of the ritual they do is a body ritual called mouth-rite. They go the holy mouth man once
The clients do this to fix their teeth and also to draw friends. The Nacirema go through pain to fix their appearance so that they could look better and be happy in life. Even though they do worship material objects such as rituals and charms. They also worship non-material things like the listener, the holy mouth men, and medicines. Overall the Nacirema people believe that their body is ugly, and through the daily activities of the rituals performed on the body, it will bring satisfaction and meaning to their life’s. Yes, I was surprise of what their beliefs and values were. I can’t believe that they worship charms and magical materials, to me that is just an object and is not necessary to worship. Their beliefs were also a breath taking I couldn’t believe it that they will continue to go the holy mouth man years after years even though he does not help at all and their teeth just continues to decay. While reading the article I was very confuse at first but I did notice that Nacirema is America spelled backwards. So I started to read a little bit closer and shrines could be consider our jewelry or make up that we put on, on a daily