Nacirema is AMERICAN spelled backward. Re-read the article knowing this and you will understand much better what is being described to the reader :)
The Nacirema people are Americans. In the article " Body Ritual Among The Nacirema ", By: Horace Miner, he explains how what we do as Americans is different when someone puts it in a way that other people may think seem strange.
nails,hairs,dead cells
American people going to the dentist twice year to get their teeth cleaned and examine to make sure their is no cavities.
That is a very unusual question. The answer is you feel inside a human body.
The brain virtually tells every part of the human body how to respond. The cerebrum contains the information that makes up our level of intelligence, personality, speech, and our ability to move and feel.
Nacirema is simply American spelled backward.
I have to read the 'Body Ritual Nacirema' in my anthropology class, and wrote a brief summary about the article. Is it okay to compare it with American customs?
It's called "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" ('Nacirema' being 'America' spelled backwards).
Horace Miner
The Nacirema people are Americans. In the article " Body Ritual Among The Nacirema ", By: Horace Miner, he explains how what we do as Americans is different when someone puts it in a way that other people may think seem strange.
Nacirema is American spelled backwards. The Nacirema article is talking American culture and putting it an outside perspective.
the nacirema culture is a culture that is a culture.(Ha WEIRD mee)
Nacirema Club was created in 1920.
Warm and bumpy
The Nacirema Kingdom is a fictional culture described in an anthropological article by Horace Miner, written to highlight the ethnocentrism of Western cultures by presenting them from an outsider's perspective. In reality, the Nacirema Kingdom does not exist.
Makes it feel so much better
just as interesting and worthy of study as any other