Mouth Rite Behavior Research Paper

One of the mouth-rite behaviors is when, as described on page 78, small bundles of hog hairs are inserted into mouth. On page 78-79, holy-mouth-man is an addition to mouth-rite and it opens the client’s mouth and enlarges any holes where decay may have created holes in the teeth. The holes need enlarged to clean out, so you can add the supernatural substance. The decay never goes away which is why they need to continue to fix the teeth year after year. Another mouth-rite behavior is latipso, which is required to help sick natives recover from sicknesses (page 79). Latispso ceremonies are done on the sick natives; however, the small children do not usually absorb the medication. The guardians of the temples where the ceremonies take place, since …show more content…
I believe people should know what the ingredients are in their medicine. Secondly, I thought that it was interesting how each family has at least one shrine. It is a place that is secret and private for the family to talk and not have anyone know what he or she are talking about or where to find them. I think that this would be a neat feature to have in houses.
I found it disturbing that the “mothers are particularly suspected to put curses on their children while teaching them secret body rituals” (page 80). To me this does not sound normal why someone would want to curse his or her child. I think parents should want good this to happen to their child and want them to have a good life. I think that other cultures would find this odd and not what parents should want for their children.
I could not say that I would love to go to Nacirema on vacation. I work at a dentist and the holy-mouth-man thing with the hog hairs did not seem like something people should do to help with tooth decay. I also found some of their cultural beliefs odd but everyone has different opinions so maybe they would not be all bad. People who work at the dental company with me just did volunteer work in Guatemala to give them good dental care. I would consider going to Nacirema to give them good dental care and to learn their culture with my

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