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In a similar vein is "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...)



I was introduced to this in SOC101 by one of the best professors I ever had. It was given as a paper handout and we were instructed to read and discuss. A couple students caught on, but I wasn’t one of them and it made it so much better. Over a decade later when I find myself attempting to fit a new concept into my own, limited, world view, the Holy Mouth Men still come to warn me.




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