In the culture
of Sateré-Mawé, it is socially acceptable to subject young male members of
society to incredible amounts of discomfort. They believe that enduring great
amounts of pain is necessary to become a man. Since these people value male
adult status highly, they are willing to perform these ethnocentrically taboo
practices of withstanding pain to prove to other members of society that
those who have achieved the status of being an adult have earned their
right.
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