Nacirema

Nacirema ( read backwards "American " English for " Americans ") is a name under which the people of the United States subject ethnological investigations. It goes back to the essay Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner, which was published in 1956 in the journal American Anthropologist. This Miner explained the American society in a way, were as described elsewhere in anthropology ethnicities. He described, for example, cruel rituals in which men their daily facial skin with sharp blades maltreat ( shaving) or women regularly bake her head (hair stylist ).

Readers should have been horrified by such body rituals of the Nacirema ethnicity, without realizing it, that it was an abstracted description of your own society. The aim of the article was a critique of current scientific notation, which was the social reality distorting. Miner wanted to criticize it, as far walk past the type of observation to reality.