Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Body Ritual among the Nacirema

HE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways iq T which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not apt to. be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact, if all of thelogically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, he is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe. This point has...

The Nacirema Revisited

Iranian Women, Inside or Outside of the Stadium? An Anthropological Study on Female Representation of National Identity in Iran

A controversial and comprehensive debate that has resulted in numerous discursive clashes in Iran pertains to the presence of women at stadiums during male soccer matches. Different discourse systems have expressed their own contradictory and opposite stances in terms of whether Iranian women have the right to attend such events inside or outside the stadium, ranging from different notions of r...

Binomials and the noun-to-verb ratio in Puma Rai ritual speech

This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in t...

The study of the historical aspects of the aunt Rouro as the collective dreams of women in Hormozgan

Abstract: Childbirth as an ancient event in human life has always created events and beliefs through human history that has enjoyed a great variety and attraction for women. Aunt Rouro's drama is a recall of authority, planning and purposefulness of the role and presence of women in the family, which, by repeating it in feminine congresses, somehow appreciates the role of women within this spec...