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.." When one uses health foods it shows that person has "certain values and a commitment for a certain world view," Dubisch writes; and that person is experiencing a "mazeway resynthesis," a mental map, a mental image of the world that is entirely individual. Health food use is a "system of symbols" in which foods have life-giving properties. The Pentecostal Church also believes in "healing" and like the health food movement, is skeptical about doctors' ability to heal. "Even when a person receives medical assistance, he can still look to God for diving healing" (United Pentecostal Church International). "He can and often does heal miraculously without any human assistance...many people in our churches can testify to being miraculously healed by God..."

10 Occupational Folklore: When a person in an occupation learns and plays out certain rituals and beliefs, it is important for research to be conducted into those behaviors for that helps understand how humans function in society.

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For example, the bartenders in a middle class bar in Philadelphia, where many African-Americans come for a drink after work; the ladies tending bar are actually in a kind of play, and they are on stage, and they are both the "directors and principal characters" (Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader) (154) in that play. Studying their abilities to artistically direct, choreograph, and speak their lines with style, is also a process for researchers of learning how folklore is carried out live, extemporaneously, in a sometimes unpredictable social situation. Bell writes (154) that the barmaids "were intent on being the prism through which social life was refracted into its appropriate spectrum." And when alcohol is involved, changing personalities, some artistic theater is….....

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