Body Ritual Essay

Sony A. Harris SOCI-1301-63011 2/9/2017 Title: Body Rituals among the Nacirema The author here has mentioned “Shrine”, which in fact, is not a temple or any religious place but rather it is a bathroom and the ritual performed in the shrine are the daily activities that we do in the bathroom. The author has focused on the chest or a box that is built in the wall of the shrine. It refers to the cabinet and the charms and the magical potions in the chest are the medicines. The medicine men and the

“Body Rituals Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner’s ethnography based passage centers on the isolated land of Nacirema. There, anthropologist studies studied the “odd” behavioral rituals and cultural norms that the Nacirema people have such as drilling holes into the mouth and a charm box the people bow their heads into. Seemingly being a foreign land will almost disturbing customs, the reader soon learns that Nacirema, in reality, is America and the routinely activities that is initially portrayed

I’ll be totally honest with you; I had absolutely no idea what was going on when we were reading “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner. There was not a single part of me that was in on the joke, and while that says a great deal about my personal gullibility, it also says a great deal about the success of Miner’s work. For my own pride, and my own grade, I’ll chose to focus what that fact says about Miner’s work in terms of class discussion prompts, cultural relativism, and ethnocentrism

In the article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” the author uses magical and humorous word choice, to make the reader jump to assumptions about the culture. Miner mainly uses magical word choice. In the article, a primary focus is a shrine in the home which holds a box that contains potions and charms. The keeper of these objects in the box believes that they cannot live without them. He used the magical words to describe the bathroom and the objects inside it, such as a medicine cabinet that contains

Body rituals among the Nacirema tribe The story relates to how we seek perfection on our bodies. It demonstrates how people will perform extreme procedures to achieve perfection, and even after this they will still feel they are ugly and not perfect. The rituals performed by the Nacirema tribe may seem inhumane, but if compared to our current culture and the procedures people perform on their bodies there is no much difference. I viewed the things they did as bizarre, but on close analysis of our

Prompt #1 Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” was a very entertaining essay. The essay made made fun of American culture without directly stating the name of the culture, other than including the word American spelled backwards. Miner bring to the readers attention the odd rituals practiced in America that the normal citizen would not find strange at all. However, by presenting his essay in the this form he shows how strange American customs are from the view of someone in a different

beliefs, values, norms, and behaviors passed on from one generation to the next. The sociological standpoint is that culture is based on rituals and each culture defines its reality and acceptable behavior and chooses its authorities by specific rituals. In an article written by Horace Minor, titled “Body Rituals among the Nacirema”, everyday functions and rituals are expressed about a group of people, the Nacirema. Minor describes this tribe as uncivilized and which seems primal, yet somewhat familiar

combat ignorant theories that society believes are true about Muslims. Over a cup of tea, Malik shares diverse experiences of bigotry that her westernized characters have undergone after 9/11, from a London Rapper to a Moroccan- American Lawyer. “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner is an article that depicts attributes of the behaviors of citizens in the United States of America. Miner deliberately wrote the article,

Horace Miner wrote about the strange rituals that people in this “tribe” perform.  The title is “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”, this may sound like a tribe, but with careful reading, the real meaning can be found.  The first thing that is noticed is the word “Nacirema”.  It is described throughout as a tribe, but after reading the story it becomes clear that it is the American people that are being talked about. In my, opinion Miner was trying to illustrate an obsession. “It is true that American

dead, can be harmful so they use etiquette to give reason to use a buffer and instead say they have moved away. For a literary example I will use “Who am I this time?” by Vonnegut and “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” by Miner, for both readings use ambiguity to hide an allegory of communication concepts. The “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”