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Body Ritual among the Nacirema: An Anthropological Satire

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This argumentative essay discusses Horace Miner's satirical anthropology paper on Nacirema culture and suggests that anthropology papers should not be written and read with the purpose of judging any culture.

Body Ritual among the Nacirema: An Anthropological Satire

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Running Head: Body Ritual among the NaciremaBODY RITUAL AMONG THE NACIREMA
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Body Ritual among the Nacirema1IntroductionThe following argumentative essay is an attempt to understand the authors perspective towards writing an anthropology and our perspective as a reader towards the reading the same paper. The essay also suggests prerequisite assumptions to the authors and readers before writingand reading any anthropology paper. In this regard, the thesis statement of the following can be stated as “Whether the description provided by anthropology papers should be written and read with the purpose of judging any culture or not.”Body Ritual among the NaciremaThe article "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" written by Horace Miner is a satirical anthropology paper on other anthropology papers that describe "others" culture after considering their own culture as superior. Miner has explained Nacirema culture as strange in a manner similar to other anthropology papers but reveals the twist to us in the end. The description provided is actually about American society spelled backward as Nacirema in such a manner thatwe do not recognize it until it is revealed to us in the end (Miner 503).The arguments given by Miner describe the regular everyday habits of the people of the tribe in ways which are unfamiliar and weird to us. This impression provided by Horace Miner about Nacirema makes us judge the tribe as strange without any logic. This makes the paper a satire on the society where we easily overlook the similarities and judge others only on the basis of dissimilarities. The buildings and familiar objects are described on the basis of their use and materials without using any familiar adjectives so that these things remain unrecognized until theend (Burde 549). The paper makes fun of American’s grooming habits and has genuinely expressed the insufficiently enlightened American values.
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