The first thing I noticed about the article‚ Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner is that Nacirema is American spelled backwards. That caught my attention right away and I thought to myself how interesting. Then as I started reading further into the article‚ I realized that the Nacirema people are us. What I found most interesting about the Nacirema people is how obsessed and focused we are on our health and body. There is always a fad diet that guarantees amazing results or a new cross
Premium
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Summary Body Ritual Among the Nacirema is an article written by anthropologist Horace Miner‚ that depicts a society whose focus is solely on the enhancement of the human body. In the text‚ the characters are the their Nacirema people‚ who live in northern America. The Nacerima people center around this idea that the human body is ugly and that it is prone to sickness and aging. Horace Miner describes several rituals the Nacirema people partake in to better their physical
Premium Hygiene Oral hygiene Dentistry
culture and ritual. Societies around the world use these phenomena to express their beliefs and establish a profound way of life. More often than not‚ it is these practices that education individuals and groups the truth behind their society. However‚ a culture and its rituals differentiate from the rest of the world. Many groups fail to understand the way in which other cultures function based the biased opinion of their own. Horace Miner‚ mastermind of the work‚ Body Ritual Among the Nacirema illustrates
Premium Culture Human body Ritual
Body Ritual Among Nacirema Who are the Nacirema? The Nacirema are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawark of the Antilles. Little is known about their origin but people believe that they came from the east. These people concentrate on the human body‚ which is their main concern which makes the Nacirema unique in their rituals and ways of thinking. The Nacirema believe that the human body is ugly in
Premium Shamanism United States North America
review of the article by Horace Miners “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” I would evaluate this culture’s belief and behaviors provides a direct evident that the attitudes or characteristics of human body has an extensive influence on variety of institutions in Nasiriya society. Throughout the reading‚ he provides the reader an understanding perspective of the American rituals from a different point of view. The key word that is emphasized is the word ritual and how it is impacted so much in our lives
Premium Sociology Culture Anthropology
Celebrating the anniversary of a person’s birth is very important in some cultures. For the Browns clan it is quite proper for family to have a yearly celebration of one’s birth. The Browns are a family of faith that consider themselves to be Christians. There is question among people of faith is it okay for Christians to celebrate birthdays? Why are birthdays celebrated? Is it sinful to celebrate birthdays? Surely there is no harm done in acknowledging the passage of time as another year
Premium Birthday
Body Ritual among the Nacirema” tells the story of the “unusual aspect” lifestyle and the rituals of the Americans. Miner uses a unique approach to describe not Nacirema but the Americans by using an outsider’s view‚ a person who does not understand American’s lifestyle. Nacirema is American spelled backwards Miner writes about is every household having a “shrine room” and those individuals with more power contain more than one. He remarks that the shrines rituals ‘are not with family but are
Premium Family Mother Father
After reading the article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”‚ I can’t help but notice blatantly obvious similarities between our culture and theirs. Their rituals‚ rites‚ and customs are bizarre in nature and seem to illustrate a nearly obsessive fascination with the human body. The main focus of their culture appears to be shaming people based on their appearance and forcing them to conform to the societal norms. Upon further reading‚ I noted that while the Nacirema put a high value on the upkeep of
Premium Sociology Ancient Rome Human body
Horace Miner writes about the Nacirema‚ a culture steeped in magic and superstition. Their ways of life are portrayed as uncivilized and barbaric. The Nacirema perform rituals and rites that are strange to us here in the civilized world. The description and portrayal of this tribe make it very hard for the reader to connect or even begin to understand such a strange people. Miner starts of the article creating an atmosphere of wonderment; “if all of the logically possible combinations of behavior
Premium Culture Cultural relativism Ritual
Horace Miner was trying to make is his paper titled "Body Ritual among the Nacirema". Horace’s paper is about America but in the perspective that America is a tribe of third world country or such. I go through the individual topics‚ which mostly make fun of American’s vanity‚ and I describe what he is really talking about. I try to summaries Horace’s paper and put it in “American” terms. Nacirema: The American Tribe Here in America we view ourselves
Premium United States Culture Sociology