Case Study Nacirema

Horace Miner writes that the Nacirema people can be described as magic-ridden people. They have very many burdens they have imposed unto themselves; for example, the excretory rituals. These are rituals that puts one ethnic group very distinct as compared to others, and by and large, it makes them consolidate their beliefs and activities. In the eyes of modern culture, the Nacirema culture presents a ‘?crazy scenario.’? However, the Nacirema people as explained in the article are not ready to abandon or put down the ‘?perceived burdens.’? They are ready to continue with them. In themselves, they value what they do as superior and something which cannot be interfered with by other cultures.

The Nacirema has a rich and an untraceable culture and practice of ritual system that is

The question would be very important for cultural anthropologists to answer because the article talks about what Nacirema would do for their body to be healthy. According to the article, Nacirema have to reward gifts to both medicine men for the list of ingredients and herbalist for potion. We need to understand why Nacirema spend so much of their fortune on their health, even though they don’t know if the potions and magical cures will have positive effects for their body.

Nayania’s aunt provided information about Nayania’s behavior and attitude in the home. Aunt stated that she is not sure why Nayania behave disrespected to team member during session. Aunt stated, that Nayania thinks she can speak to adults anyway she wants. Aunt stated that she spoke to Nayania about being disrespectful to adults figures. Aunt stated, that Nayania refuses to get involve in things that will be of benefit to her. Aunt stated, that Nayania have a very negative attitude towards things that is beneficial to her. Aunt stated, that she is fed-up of Nayania’s behavior and attitude towards her. And is still looking into out of home placement for her. Aunt stated that she do not know how else to encourage and motivate Nayania in participating

What makes the Nacirema so interesting are their beliefs and rituals, within their culture it is believed their body is ugly, and has a tendency to be weak and attract diseases. This belief has led them to have a shrine within each household dedicated to reverse these beliefs they have about their body; inside a shrine is a charm box, potions, and holy water. Each charm serves a purpose to an illness they are trying to cure, and is not disposed of until it fulfills it's duty. The charm box is usually filled; if not overflowing, and they will usually forget what the charm was there to begin with. Ingredients for the potions are decided by the medicine men, who receive gifts from their clients as payment. Holy water is placed inside the

Consequently, I recently spent some time researching the Nacirema culture and found they often engage in unconventional practices to gain wisdom. These practices became particularly notable when I visited the namrednil lebry,

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The basic focus of nacirema people is their bodies appearance and the way of which they should be cared for. This is their main focus because they believe that the human body is ugly and its main tendency is to disability and disease. Therefore they complete powerful rituals and ceremonies to try and rid these natural tendencies of which they despise so much. The shrine these ceremonies are performed to and in front of is a box or chest built into the wall that holds many charms and potions that are believed to be magic. A daily ritual is the mouth-rite where a bundle of hog hairs and magical powder is inserted into the mouth and a series of movements are done. Then twice a year they visit a holy mouth man who performs an exorcism on the mouth

Cultural anthropologists have studied the Nacirema for almost 2800 seasons now, and yet many of them acknowledge that they are no closer to understanding the eccentric customs of these superficial people than when they began. The Nacirema, a people whose history seems to consist mainly of impulsive actions and blood sheddings, have numerous bizarre rituals in which they partake on the dawn of every new sun, but one sect, the Naitsirhc, are more idiosyncratic than the rest. With their status as a deeply holy people, one would assume that they are perhaps the most generous of the tribes. However, this is false, and their Day of Tributes is a prime example of humanity’s materialistic values.

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Horace Miner’s article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” is an amazing article that makes people that do not believe their unique grasp the concept that everyone is indeed unique. Miner wrote this article about Americans as Americans generally believe that other countries have rituals while we are just plain with no uniqueness. Miner uses a language that is not typical among american literature. He has a strategy of using words such as: Supplicant, Witch doctor, household shrine, etc in order to make us realize that we do have our own rituals. We as Americans hold a misconception that we are not as special as other countries which makes us percieve them to be weird because of their customs. Miner wants us to know that we are indeed different too which makes him use vocabulary words that we would not use versus the ones that we are used to in order to prove that point. This article is trying to make it clear to the readers that Americans see other cultures as true cultures and that we just have a daily life. A daily life is the same as a culture, it is no different. Americans see themselves as Americans yet see others as foreigners. People never think that those from other countries would see us in that light, we believe that there are only two catergories. The categories are that you are either a Nacirema or a foreigner which is what it sounds like Miner is trying to point out. This is not the truth but this is the way that the Nacirema see it because they do not really want

It is thought that after many of these great assaults a small group of the tribe destroyed their llec enohp’s. But through all of this many people still found the llec enohp’s useful in different ways and used its magic for good. More and more information is being unlocked about the Nacirema’s strange technology and as the association uncovers this information the more we can understand about the tribe. Along with its list of strange rituals, we can now add the praise of llec enohps and tradition of Ecaf Koob to that

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