Horace Miner Response Horace Miner’s essay "Body Ritual Among The Nacirema" is deeper then a clever critique of the absurdities of the American culture. Other then mocking the science of anthropology‚ Miner shows how an outsider would view America. This sight would not be much different from an American viewing an uncivilized village in the middle of the forest. Miner’s essay extensively proves that the culture of America is not very different then many other civilizations. The perspective
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Zack Hess 12/18/12 Period 1 Body Rituals of The Nacirema * Miner is really talking about the American people when he says Nacerima. He talks about them as if they are some weird tribe of humans who are hard to understand and extremely complex in their behaviors and rituals. When Miner talks about the “shrine” and how rich people have more of them he is really talking about mirrors. “Incarcerated in such a body‚ man’s only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual
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anthropology‚ but he did tell us this at first. He gave a sheet of paper that read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”. As the group of people‚ I was sitting with and I read it‚ it was about a culture obsessed with rituals and the human body as a whole. They did many things that in America we would like were not “normal”. As we finish his told us who this culture was about‚ it was about modern American. Nacirema is American spelled backward. Once I read all of it again‚ I began to see the characteristics of
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Exam Review: TERMS Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another‚ including the meanings that people give to things‚ events‚ activities‚ and people. Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture
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While in the process of doing a replication study of the Nacireman people‚ Anthropologist Lisa Hines stumbled upon an intriguing subculture within the tribe. The following are her observations; It seems that the people of Nacirema‚ in addition to their personal shrines in the home‚ have many other shrines they visit for different rituals and purposes. Besides the Holy-mouth-man and the Medicine man‚ there seems to be other subcultures of these two specialists. Naciremans also frequently gather
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Chapter 1: Understanding Sociology 1. The scientific study of social behavior and human groups is known as A. psychology. B. political science. C. anthropology. D. sociology. Answer: D 2. Sociology A. is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups. B. focuses primarily on how social relationships influence people’s behavior. C. focuses on how societies develop and change. D. all of these Answer: D 3. The awareness that allows people to comprehend the link between their
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ANTH1001 Assignment #1 Group members: 1. The Nacirema people are located below the Canadian Cree‚ and above the Taqui and Tarahumaire of Mexico. This places them in the United States. The ‘shrine’ that the author is referring to is the washroom. 2. The three ritual specialists the author discusses are the ‘holy-mouth-man’ (commonly known as the dentist)‚ the medicine man (commonly referred to as the doctor)‚ and the ‘listener’ (or psychiatrist) 3. a. The article helps to show that
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Good afternoon everyone‚ my name is Family Leung. Today I’m going to talk about how has the concept of ethnocentrism affected our way of thinking. But before I talk about how it affected our thinking‚ please let me explain what ethnocentrism is. Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture‚ especially with concern for language‚ behavior‚ customs‚ and religion
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inside What Is Culture? Development of Culture around the World Cultural Variation Role of Language Norms and Values Global Culture War Culture and the Dominant Ideology Case Study: Culture at Wal-Mart Social Policy and Culture: Bilingualism BOXES Sociology in the Global Community: Life in the Global Village Sociology in the Global Community: Cultural Survival in Brazil Sociology on Campus: A Culture of Cheating? 50 At a fairground in Iran‚ a girl enjoys a Spiderman ride. Shared learned behavior—what
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Ethnocentrism Kayleigh Carr AIU Online Introduction Ethnocentrism is defined as believing that your group or culture is better or even more important than any other group or culture in the world and that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups. I chose to watch Iron chef from japan for my essay. I learned a few things about their culture by watching this show. I learned different ways that they prepared their food mostly from watching this show and I will describe
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