Horace Miner’s Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Essay -- Horace Miner Bo

Horace Miners Body Ritual Among the Nacirema In Horace Miners article, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, he talks about a tribe and describes their odd behavior. He tells about how the tribe performs these strange daily rituals and how their peculiarity is extreme, scarce in fact he is actually speaking of Americans as a whole (Miner). Miner uses this style of writing to more effectively prove his address that Americans are ethnocentric. Miner does an exceptional job in disguising the Nacirema as Americans. Some of the things he disguises are the bathroom, which he says is a cleansing shrine. He disguises the medicine dressing table as the main device in the shrine, a bundle of hog hairs on a stick as a toothbrush, and magical potions as medicine (Miner). In this article, Miner gives a few hints that the Nairema are indeed Americans. The fact that Nacirema spelled backwards is American is a huge hint by itself. Another wrap is the holy-mouth-men. If you sit down an d think about it for a second it is obvious to realize that they are indeed dentists. Also the me...