Analysis Of Nacirema By Horace Miner

When I first read the title of this article, I realized Nacirema is American backwards. Horace Miner’s article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the way a group of North Americans and their culture. Nacirema’s people lived in the early 1900’s and these people were extremely obsessed with body rituals. During one of these rituals men used what’s described as a chisel to scrap faces. These rituals are usually done in what’s described as a shrine area where there’s potions and medicine to be used for these rituals they conduct during the day. After these rituals are conducted people go underneath the shrine and proceed to cleansing their bodies with holy water. This holy water is extracted from a water temple. Nacirema also have a ritual