A 1956 paper describes a North American tribe obsessed with mouth-rites, body-shrines, and the belief that the human body is inherently disgusting. The tribe is called the Nacirema. Read the name backward and the whole discipline of anthropology opens up: the study of other cultures is really a machine for making your own culture visible.
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