Question

As part of his daily ritual, the Nacirema Chief Littletree the Elder enters the family shrine and engages in certain body rituals. Your Uncle Ed hears about this and lets out a loud "yuck! What a bunch of disgusting primitives! I sure hope they never move here." Then you explain to Uncle Ed that he had just proven one of the main points of Horace Miner's article on that group, which was that ________________________________.

Answer 1

When cultures are not properly situated in their social and cultural contexts, then ethnocentric interpretations become more likely

Step-by-step explanation:

Horace Mitchell Miner wrote the Nacirema(america spelt backwards) article and originally published it in June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist. Horace Miner describes the Nacirema, a little-known tribe living in North America, as a group of people with great appreciation for the health of the body even though considered ugly. She further gives descriptions on the ritualistic cultures of this people and aims to create a form of self distancing in order that individuals understand their culture outside its social and cultural context therefore being more objective.