reading the article‚ I conclude the author is trying to teach or inform us about the Nacirema tribe and their way of life. By writing about their civilization the reader can learn how they live through rituals and what they practice. Miner discusses about Nacirema’s exotic customs‚ ritual activities‚ the shrine‚ their magical practitioners‚ oral care‚ harsh physical ceremonies‚ witchdoctors‚ breast rituals‚ thoughts on intercourse‚ and magical power. Once I read about these aforementioned topics‚ I
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After realizing “Nacirema” is American spelled backwards‚ it becomes evident that Miner is criticizing American culture. He describes the “tribes” behavior with a focus on changing personal appearance and magic-based rituals. Everybody goes to the “Latipso” to see “medicine-men” when they are sick and often are given potions or end up dead. This is like a looking glass into American culture. In our culture‚ there is a huge focus on physical features‚ but we don’t pray to fix it. Instead we take vitamins
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The Body Ritual of the Nacirema discusses the habits of Americans and medical professionals to someone outside the culture. The article is meant to make the Americans health habits seem like a new discovery. In the article it examined health habits that Americans follow‚ it also examined the bathroom habits of the Americans‚ and it also examined the medical professionals that treat them. But the distinction of the habits of the Americans in the article is that the author worded them as if they were
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Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” Abstract This paper is a summary of Horace Miner’s paper “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”. It talks about how every culture has a set of rituals they practice religiously‚ and in particular‚ the unusual rituals and beliefs of the Nacirema people from an outsider’s perspective. Amanda Carson Sociology 111 Writing Assignment #1 January 25‚ 2015 Summary of Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema Every society‚ tribe‚ or group of
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March 14‚ 2011 Basseri of Iran 1. The Basseri tribe is pastoralist’s nomads that migrate through steep mountains with animals of South‚ East and North Shiraz in Fars‚ South Persia. The Basseri kinship is very banned together through migration and social organization are very important to the tribe. Sickness and healing is important for the nomadic movement. A. Although‚ the Basseri tribe of Iran are nomadic pastoralists the Basseri tribe travels on a set schedule through agriculture and
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Nonna’s Wine Taralli In a tiny house surrounded by a forest of fig trees in Rende‚ Cosenza‚ Calabria‚ my great great grandmother taught her little granddaughter how to make “Nonna’s Wine Taralli.” That little girl would eventually become my grandmother and she would also teach me the art of wine taralli-making. Two cups of my grandfather’s homemade white wine‚ fourteen ounces of canola oil and sugar‚ two teaspoons of baking powder‚ an envelope of “Lievito Bartolino‚” three and a half pounds of
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The legend of the famous Devils Tower in Wyoming‚ according to the Sioux tribes of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota‚ tells a vivid story of young boys‚ and how this tower helped them to escape the grasps of a gigantic grizzly bear. The Rosebud Indian Reservation is federally recognized as the Sicangu Oyate tribe‚ or the Sicangu Lakota‚ which is a more specific group within the Lakota tribe. (Rose‚ “About the Sicangu Oyate”) They say a group of young boys wandered off playing with their
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were Native Americans nation from the Great Plains. They were warriors of the South Plains who enjoyed hunting‚ fashion‚ and learning the English language and cultural beliefs are the bases for their lives. I feel the Comanche Tribe was a very proud and traditional based tribe. This information will prove that. The Comanche Code Talkers were an elite group of young men who were fluent in the Comanche language and used that knowledge‚ along with the training they were given by the Army‚ to send critical
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The main argument of this article is that the rituals that the TSA do to check and make sure everyone is safe are violating our personal civil rights. It says that when the TSA officers do the screenings or pat downs that we lose our right to personal privacy. The main point discussed in this article is that since the attacks of September 11th‚ 2001 most people have become more worrisome and fearful of things like 9/11 recurring. According to the article this has caused them to lose trust in counter-terrorism
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sorrow and hard times there is a Lake Tribe that endures the pain of the land but with all of this pain comes a symbol of hope‚ The Blue-Shelled Tortoise. This symbol of hope is the difference between life and death because The Blue-Shelled tortoise brings the water down from the sky. This tortoise comes once a year out of the lake about 50 miles away for the tribes location. Each year the tribe take 10 men and to search for this tortoise. The chief of the tribe has lead this group of people for 30
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