At first glance‚ it might seem that culturally-advanced and deep-thinking Americans have relatively little in common with the comparatively narcissistic‚ shallow‚ and primitive Nacirema‚ who carve out an existence somewhere between "the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carab and the Awawak of the Antilles" ("Body Ritual among the Nacirema‚ p. 1). Who could even think to compare Americans‚ in our advanced state‚ with such a remote and isolated group? However‚ upon closer
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Sureyya Kahraman The Canela Indians of Brazil. The Canela people are native people who live in the upper east portion of Brazil. They live in the Eastern part of the Brazilian State of Maranhao‚ in a Savanna and woodland area with stream edge forests. They inhibit an area between the wet Amazon basin and the dry Northeast. While most of the Canelas cultural cousins live in the Amazon basin‚ the waters of the Canela’s region flow directly north into the Atlantic. The Canela traditionally live in
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In the article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner‚ he writes about a North American group known as the “Nacirema”‚ who were described by Professor Linton in the early twentieth century. In the article described‚ the “Nacirema” are a cultural group who seem to be obsessed with rituals they perform in regards to the human body on a day-to-day basis. These people believe that the human body is ugly and debilitating and are described to waste great portions of their days performing the
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Horace Miner’s article first prepares us to find an example of the extremes to which human behhavior can go. He gives us the locations of the Nacirema‚their myth of origin and their market orientation. He introduces his topic ritual activity‚the main point of the article of which is the human body‚the way it looks and health. "The fundamental beliefunderlyinig the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease." Nacirema people work
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At first I wasn’t too surprised by the behavior of the Nacirema. Medicine men making potions and priests making sure water is holy are all things that I have heard about before. What really took me aback was the holy mouth man. I was shocked at the torture these people go through because of their beliefs in certain magic rituals. I’ve never had a cavity before‚ so just the thought of someone grinding holes in my teeth makes my mouth hurt. However‚ I guess if I was raised believing that these sort
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The Vision Quest The Vision Quest is common to many primal traditions throughout the world. It is a primary means for an individual to gain access to spiritual power that will ensure greater success in activities such as hunting‚ warfare‚ and curing the ill. Both men and women experience this quest‚ though men do so more frequently. The vision quest is carried out under the supervision of a medicine man or woman‚ a spiritual leader who issue specific instructions beforehand‚ and interprets
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Temitope Adenaike Reaction Paper to Sebastian’s Voodoo. As I watched the first few seconds of the short animation Sebastian’s Voodoo‚ directed by Joaquin Baldwin‚ I was creeped out. The film opened up with a few roughly hewn fabric voodoo dolls being hung on hooks and an unidentifiable witch doctor as the antagonist in a location that looked like a workshop. I felt uncomfortable because I thought the animation was going to be based on hard-core
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Marun-Batista Ms. Oleksyshyn ENG2D1 15 October 2013 The Monkey’s Paw W.W Jacob’s the Monkey’s Paw has some very distinctive differences when placed in direct comparison with the film adaptation. In the short film‚ it seems that various aspects of the story do no hold true to the original story. A few of the more noticeable changes include the scenes‚ dialog‚ and the addition of the occasional slips humour from the characters. The story according to W.W Jacobs begins in the parlour of Laburnam
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Maybe you’ve read all of the Harry Potter books and watched every episode of Charmed or Bewitched‚ so you think you know what witches are all about. Modern witches don’t exactly fit most of the TV and movie characters you’ve seen‚ however. Are they good? Are they evil? Do they cast spells to cause bad things to happen? The true definition of a witch‚ as well as the history of witches in general‚ is widely debated. Many texts describe witchcraft as pacts with the Devil in exchange for powers to
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Sacred space and making the world sacred‚ is an extract from theorist Mircea Eliade’s 1987 book The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion. Mircea Eliade’s argument is that there is no such thing as a homogeneous space‚ even for the non-religious man. He presents this argument that all religions share something in common‚ by identifying the difference between the sacred and the profane it gives us a meaning of life. According to Eliade‚ “Where the sacred manifests it-self in space‚ the real
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