Upon reading the article, sacrifice, was the word that describes the Nacirema’s religion. Who would go through extremes or the distance of sacrificing their finances or even their bodies to become a better person? According to Miner, the Nacirema’s would go to the extreme, farther than any normal human being would go (p. 503). Sacrifice seem like the Nacirema’s middle name. First, let’s look at the shrines. Shrines were located in every household and hidden from the “world.” The wealthy placed their shrines surrounded by stone, while the poorer families “sacrificed” to imitate the wealthy by placing pottery around their shrines (p. 503). Something of importance, like the shrine, show that sacrifices can be made to uphold religious attributes. …show more content…
Nacirema would visit the “holy mouth man” and endure the feeling of drills, probes, and picks entering into their mouths (p.504). Sacrifice was made each time the Nacirema visited the “holy mouth man.” The amount of pain that they had to endure in order to rid their mouths of unwanted spirits to prevent tooth decay or the loss of a loved one is a sacrifice that not many people would do. Third, the main sacrifice the Nacirema endured, was when they visited the “medicine man.” Upon entering the temple, the Nacirema’s knew there was a chance that they wasn’t going to return to their families. Nacirema’s kept their heads up, along with their belief in the “medicine man” to continue healing them and that is why they kept going to the temple (p.506). Another sacrifice they had to deal with when going to see the “medicine man” was “forking up” gift before and after leaving the temple. If the Nacirema was poor, that would have been a huge sacrifice made to achieve possible