Nacirema Essay edit

This article describes the bodily behavior of the Nacerima. The Nacerima are a seemingly strange group of people. As the Ethnographer of the article puts it, they are a masochistic group of people. The Nacirema performs rituals that actually seem to harm their bodies, believing that these rituals would cure them. The professional curers, such as the ‘medicine men’, and the ‘holy-mouth-men’ seem to enjoy dinflicting pain upon those