Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Miner, H. (1956). Body Ritual among the Nacirema.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1956

Link

https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1956.58.3.02a00080verified

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Mechanisms

• Comparative Case Seminar
  • Its defining move is plurality by construction — enough parallel cases that the familiar is denaturalized simply by having neighbors, an old ethnographic trick of making the familiar strange.

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