The article Body Ritual among the Nacirema is about the characterizes of the Naciremas‚ a North American group of people. Their lives are dedicating to their charm-box in which is a major need for them to complete their rituals and everyday life. Each house has a charm-box or a treasure chess in these they place their charms and medicines and magical materials that they believe in. Their daily mores they do is that every day each member of the family enters the shrines room and bow their head before
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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 their bodies‚ they
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Body Ritual in Nacirema When I started reading Miner’s “Body Rituals among the Nacirema” I wasn’t really ‘reading’ it. By the end of the first page‚ it “hit me” and I had to start reading it over again. Realizing the essay was speaking of Americans gave me a whole different perspective. I found some of it quite amusing as well as enlightening. My feeling is that the author intended the reader to see our own ethnocentrism and question our own acts towards others with whom we are not familiar
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Cultural Perspectives of Dress JOURNAL ENTRY CHAPTER 1 1.6 Body Ritual among the Nacirema Horace Miner‚ University of Michigan In the article‚ the author introduces us alleging that the anthropologist is familiar with so many different behaviors that it is hard to believe he can be shocked by some exotic culture. However‚ he specifies later that the piece is just about how far humans can reach regarding their demeanors and rites. Along the article‚ Miner describes the habits – I might just
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In the story‚ “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”‚ by Horace Miner he talks about the Nacirema tribe and describes the body rituals that their society does on a regular basis that they view as the norm in their society and culture. While reading about these strange and unusual rituals‚ one can’t help but think that what these people are doing is totally and completely ridiculous. Ethnocentrism comes over and judgment takes place‚ but in reality some could view our American culture as just and crazy
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Article 1: Body Ritual among the Nacirema The narrator writes about the strange rituals that people from the Nacirema tribe performs. After reading the article‚ you understand that the Nacirema tribe represents the American people. Another way you can tell that the Nacirema tribe is about the American people is because “Nacirema” is actually America backwards. The narrator uses many different references to explain our everyday doings as rituals. Some of the references in which he put were Medicine
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Elise Murray Analysis of the Nacirema Sociology 101 04D Ivy Tech Community College Abstract The analysis of the article Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Minor uses key principles to help decipher the hidden meanings behind his work. The article is based off of Americans but written in a primitive manner to help show readers the importance of keeping an open mind. Cultural relativism is crucial when researching a new topic. This culture is different than others based
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Julia Soca May 8‚ 2012 ESL reading I have a friend name Mary who was married to a pauper man. At the beginning‚ they were insight to solve things together. However‚ that woman was the only one working in the family‚ and has three children with the guy. One day‚ the husband had an inconceivable headache while Mary was at work doing double shifts. Later one‚ she came over‚ and gave him a Tylenol and the pain vanish right the way. On the other hand‚ the husband was very
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introduction‚ Horace Miner in his essay provides again the definition of an anthropologist‚ in which we have to maintain an open mind regarding things we may not understand. He introduces the Nacirema people for their “exotic customs”. Extreme behaviors in human aspects that have been either suspected or been imagined can be found in this tribe. A study done on them was conducted due to many unknown (pre-study) details regarding this tribe. The Nacirema culture views the human body is “ugly in
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In Nacirema‚ Horace Miner uses satire and wordplay to teach us how easy it is to judge cultures that we don’t know much about. Miner is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures
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