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             The article about the Nacirema talks about the ritual they perform on their bodies.
             The Nacirema live near Mexico and Canada. They believe that the human body is ugly so they perform many kinds of rituals on it. For example, the men lacerate the surface of their faces with a sharp instrument. While the women bake their heads in ovens. The Nacirema also believe in magic and medicine men. The article states that although the medicine men usually end up killing the people, the people still eagerly go to then. .
             The medicine men are the masochists in the society where as the people are the sadists. They also believe in a witch doctor who has the ability to exorcise people minds. .
             In The Tapestry of Culture, it is stated that "each culture has an underlying logic of its own."(P. 1) This is true even though we might not understand and agree with the rituals of the Nacirema, it is their culture. Obvious their belief is that the human body is ugly and that is their logic for doing the things they do to the body. The anthropologist who went to this society couldn't display ethnocentrism but had to display cultural relativism or he would've never been able to gain the confidence of the people who told him the story of their rituals. I think cultural rules and enculturation relate very much to the Nacirema. The Nacirema raise their children with their beliefs and rituals so when they are grown they practice the same rituals. The children have cannot tell anyone the things that go on in their home it must be kept private. The rituals are passed down from generation to generation which allows this society to still exist today. .
            


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