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WHICH ONE OF THESE LOCATIONS HAS THE CULTURE DESCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR?

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WHICH ONE OF THESE LOCATIONS HAS THE CULTURE DESCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR?


[+] ballot by nuckinfutz
ACTIVE Mon Sep 08, 08 - Sat Jun 04, 11

The following are excerpts from an article by Horace Miner about a certain culture:

"One has but to watch the gleam in the eye of a holy-mouth-man, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve, to suspect that a certain amount of sadism is involved. If this can be established, a very interesting pattern emerges, for most of the population shows definite masochistic tendencies. It was to these that Professor Linton referred in discussing a distinctive part of the daily body ritual which is performed only by men. This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument. Special women's rites are performed only four times during each lunar month, but what they lack in frequency is made up in barbarity. As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour. The theoretically interesting point is that what seems to be a preponderantly masochistic people have developed sadistic specialists."

"Few supplicants in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds. The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men, involve discomfort and torture. With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained. At other times they insert magic wands in the supplicant's mouth or force him to eat substances which are supposed to be healing. From time to time the medicine men come to their clients and jab magically treated needles into their flesh. The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people's faith in the medicine men."

Greenland
Madagascar
Papua New Guinea
Indonesia
Peru
Mongolia
Antarctica
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