Nacirema Tribe Summary

The perception of foreign cultures can at times be quite peculiar. The article “Eating Christmas in Kalahari” by Richard Borshay Lee, foretells a classic example of cross culture misunderstanding when people from different cultures operate in a culturally unfamiliar environment. Richard Lee, a social anthropologist, explains what he learned living with the !Kung Bushmen, a South African tribe, for three years. This Gemeinschaft community of hunters-gatherers worked together to teach the anthropologist something important to their people, even though he was unaware of their intentions in the beginning.

In this article, Miner takes the role of an outsider and judges the Nacirema just as we judge other cultures. Miner does an exceptional job of wording things in such a way that we don’t even recognize our own culture. Miner wants us to realize that when someone, such as an anthropologist describes another culture, we can interpret that into being abnormal but in actuality, it is, by all means, very normal.

Horace Miner wrote the article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”, in which he described and detailed the various body rituals practiced among the Nacirema culture. Horace starts the article by explaining that anthropologists encounter all types of cultural and ritualistic extremities, but the Nacirema body rituals are among some of the most extreme observed. The

In the text this week we learned about different cultures and the different behaviors in these cultures. In

This paper addresses the results of interviews, observations, and research of life in the Ottawa tribe, how they see themselves and others in society and in the tribe. I mainly focused on The Little River Band of Ottawa Indian tribe. I researched their languages, pecking order, and interviewed to discover the rituals, and traditions that they believe in. In this essay I revealed how they see themselves in society. How they see other people, how they see each other, what their values were, what a typical day was etc. I initially suspected that I would have got different responses from these questions but in reality the results in the questions were almost completely the same. I studied this topic because mostly all the people that are

Horace Miner describes the people of the North American tribe the Naciremas as persons “devoted to economic pursuits (Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. Miner. 503.3.2)” and ritual activities of the human body. Miner uses a satirical style, play on words to abnormally describe such cultural upon this tribe. Throughout the text, Miner uses words and or phrases such as: “sadism, masochistic, neophyte, awls, and objects in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client.” Horace Miner, uses those such words and phrases to describe the various everyday rituals conducted by the Naciremas by producing ethnocentrism through the readers of his text.

This study examines Horace Miner’s essay “Body Rituals Among the Nacirema. While using the participant observation approach, he gives us a new perspective on the daily behaviors within this group of people. Exploring ethnocentrism and how we view cultures outside of our own.

For this paper I chose along with the ethnography of !Nisa, to write about the Family, Marriage and Kinship ties of Indian culture specifically of the village of Ratakote as told in Conformity and Conflict.

The author’s purpose in writing this article was not to show the “Nacirema” as an example of how extreme human behavior can become, but how an outside perspective can affect your perception of an alien culture. If one were to look at the “Nacirema’s” cultural behaviors regarding physical appearance and health without any insight or knowledge of the specific beliefs or values of that culture, they might seem bizarre and even incomprehensible. By showing behaviors and “rituals” performed by this unknown tribe, Miner allowed others to see that the way studies were representing distinctive cultures was narrowminded and defective. Without the proper comprehension of the basis of any society, huge cultural misunderstandings could occur. Of

As he becomes active member, he gains a penetrating insight in to tribal life in aspects of hunting, gardening and manioc production. Distinctive in comparison to descriptive ethnography the book follows eight chapters, abstract in their initial headings such as “At Long Hammock”, “Other Voices” and “Romance”. Campbell develops a self-reflective nature of writing which embedded throughout the chapters gives a new elevation to anthropological literature.

In this essay I am going to discuss how anthropologists come to see ritual as a way of making history. Rituals are an important role in the cultural society and play a significant role in the way we live our lives. Rituals give us a feeling of security and loyalty towards a certain group. They are also a main part of religion, and that is where they are commonly found. Studying the differences between various cultures help lead us to a better understanding of how rituals influence our lives. We perform and participate in rituals to show our devotion to our values and beliefs, and also to strengthen unity within a group. Anthropologists believe that rituals have been in existence since the very beginning of our time. Rituals could be believe what has kept us here so long, That is evidence as to how important they are and without this practice, we possibly would not be equipped with the security or solidarity needed to survive this world. Inevitably, there are certain things in life that we are unable to control, regardless of how hard we try. The case studies discuss rituals in societies, and how these rituals deal with the past and challenge the present. As a result we have a representation of the past and present life changing experiences.

This paper talks about the Zulu tribe in Africa and how most aspects of their life are. Their mode of subsistence is kept in focus in this paper. The modes of subsistence are looking after cattle and harvesting vegetables. The tribe is known for its art work with beads and pottery.

Throughout the history of anthropology and the ethnographic method, topics of ritual, gender and inequality have been diminutive. Anthropologists have turned their research to primarily minuscule civilizations, observing participants, surveying and interviewing communities. During this, is it an absolute necessity to marinate an individual into their preferred society to accumulate a profound grasp about its people and practical details, which frankly cannot be achieved from literary works. By doing so the researcher obtains a perceptive education into participants daily essence and formalities. One must live in their conditions, sustain alliances during involvement and most importantly, partake in its inhabitants activities while jotting down

This assignment done with my partner named Harwinder Singh. We met at the food court of the Mohawk college on February 5, 2018. That meeting was a part of reflection assignment, which core motive is to know different culture and learn something new about other culture also share good things of own culture as well. The meeting was productive and more interesting. We shared details of norms and values of the culture.

As it is known the world itself is occupied by the many various cultures and traditions that are practiced on a daily basis. Within each nation, it is found that each is quite