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Anthropologist Horace Miner wrote “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” in order to help reader “step back from our own society.” What is meant by this? Why is it important to be able to step back?

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In this dystopian, introspective society, Horace Miner’s main hypothesis is that the “Nacirema” is actually just American spelled backwards. It focuses less on fact and more on theory... on our ability to reject past society as foreign, almost to the point of becoming xenophobic. Hope that helps!
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