It is shown through these stories that in societies humans have rituals to make them beautiful. With the bizarre rituals and beliefs as stated in Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, the author Horace Miller feels the Nacirema practices are unusual. In his style of writing he uses anagrams to portray the Nacirema is American. The Nacirema have a lot of magical beliefs and rituals they use in order to stay attractive and use these in day to day life. Whereas the autobiographical essay In the Kitchen, the writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. feels proud of the struggle blacks in particular go through to look beautiful. He writes with love for his mother and memories he personally has about hair being beautiful. These essays show how in society people have different rituals for striving to look beautiful.
With so many different rituals to look beautiful, the Nacirema and black people have to be patient because most methods are time consuming. There are many rituals in the Nacirema society. The Nacirema has a ritual where they insert, "a small bundle of hog hairs
significant meaning if not looked at more closely. The Nacirema do these rituals to beautify them, as well as so they will fit into their society.
Miner, Horace. "Body Ritual Among the Nacriema". American Anthropologist. 1956.
Jr., Gates, Louis Henry. "In the Kitchen". One Hundred Great Essays. Ed. Robert
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