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.
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The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite.

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