Estelle Kennelly
Body Rituals of the Nacirema Analysis
Horace Miners article Body Ritual among the Nacirema offers great insight into the
relevance of Anthropology to modern society by way of satire. The article characterizes the
Nacirema people of North America, “discovered” by Miner, and their perceived obsession with
the human body. The author claimed to analyze rites and rituals among the Nacirema people.
Upon realizing that the word Nacirema read backwards is American, it was easy to deduct…
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