Hidden North American tribe performs daily self-torture in pursuit of beauty
In 1956, Horace Mitchell Miner visited the Nacirema people to study their habits. He wrote a paper on what he observed, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," which was published in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist.
Excerpt:
The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that the…
