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Aesthetic culture and ritual in various cultures, leads to bizarre practiced changes in the human body.

This sensitive traditions, habits, behavior, emotions, education, religion and customs, we decided to call culture permeates two key areas in human identity: the aesthetic and ritual. Therefore, viewed from a specific cultural perspective, we can find some physical manifestations that we find it quite incredible to think that they are part of the heterogeneous reality of our planet.

For example of this "magical realism" meaning multiculturalism, magic and much more real than the literary movement of the same name, a vast cast a look at some ornamental practices, interwoven between the physical and spiritual plane, which are common among various ethnic groups around the world, in this case, regions in Africa and Southeast Asia:

Beyond being a cliche image in news publications like National Geographic on Thailand, extending the neck to base of rings that are placed throughout life is an ancient tradition of the Kayan tribe. Originally this group lived in Burma, now Myanmar, but many of its members were forced to immigrate to Thailand by the local regime's repression. Today it has become so popular this practice for tourists from dozens of countries who travel to the border between the two countries, most women who wear this ornament devote their lives daily to pose for the cameras of intrigued visitors.

Lip deformities ands discs

Africa is a continent renowned for its eccentric inhabitants who use corporal manifestations of different tribes. However, one of the most striking is that of the Mursi, Ethiopia. According to tradition, a year before a woman consecrated his marriage; he makes a small incision in the lower lip and insert a piece of wood or bamboo. Over time this is being replaced by discs, increasing until it achieves sufficient separation of approximately 40 centimeters in diameter.

San Yak Tattoos

We all know that the West has adopted as part of a fashion alter pop the use of tattoos in recent decades, especially the young, but the tradition of San Yak tattoos have accompanied the daily lives of people in Thailand and Cambodia for centuries. As a kind of talisman dermal or divine narrative printed on the body, these tattoos are labeled with different spells or prayers linked to a pre Buddhist spiritual tradition of Southeast Asia. The strokes are made with long metal needles are used to store ink into the skin and the delicacy of the drawings surprise the tattoo artists working in the West.