Body Ritual Among The Nacirema Analysis

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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema The article pretty much focuses on describing the sociology and rituals of a certain culture nicknamed “Nacirema”. As I began reading it, I had a hard time understanding what it really was about simply because there was a lot of words that I have never came across before. The article talked about the rituals and the way people behave and what they do in their own culture, in my understanig the person who wrote it must have been an outsider of that culture simply because of the way he was summarizing it. As I continued reading on with the story I began to realize that the word “Nacirema” might have a deeper meaning to it, and little did anyone know it certainly did and that was “American”. There were a lot interesting …show more content…

Some of these phrases included “Medicine men, Herbalist, Substantial Gift and highly formalized series of gestures”. As you can see that pretty much shows the fact that the person learning about this culture was an outsider and came up with names on his own about the things he saw people do that he might have thought were certainly unusual or maybe weird. For example let’s talk about the phrase “Highly formalized series of gestures”, from just hearing that no one could really figure out what the meaning behind it was because from that description anything a person does can really be a Metelanski 2 series of gestures but as you read on you realize that from the context of the sentence it really meant to brush teeth. The article as I mentioned above implements rituals. I honestly think the writer when he came in contact with our American culture thought that our daily activities were rituals which is a normal reaction in my opinion because that is pretty much the same thing all people do when they travel around the world and see how different cultures act differently. When i was reading the article and I was focusing on the meanings he was trying to illustrate by saying all these weird phrases I realized that it

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