{"id":1370,"date":"2003-08-11T01:15:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/11\/1370.html"},"modified":"2003-08-11T01:15:22","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T08:15:22","slug":"body-ritual-among-the-nacirema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/11\/body-ritual-among-the-nacirema\/","title":{"rendered":"Body ritual among the Nacirema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I discovered this evening that Kam's parents, despite being dental professionals, had never encountered \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msu.edu\/~jdowell\/miner.html\">Body Ritual Among the Nacirema<\/a>,\" an article by Horace Miner originally published in 1956 in <cite>American Anthropologist.<\/cite>  (Apparently a great deal of further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadsland.com\/nacirema\/\">scholarly work on the Nacirema<\/a> has been published since then, though unfortunately many of those links are broken.)<\/p>\n<p>The Miner article and Laura Bohannon's 1971 \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/home\/idris\/Essays\/Shakes_in_Bush.htm\">Shakespeare in the Bush<\/a>\" should be required reading for anyone considering a career in anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>If one enjoys those articles, one might also be interested in David Macaulay's <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0395284252\/ref=nosim\/strangehorizons\">Motel of the Mysteries<\/a>.<\/cite><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this evening that Kam&#8217;s parents, despite being dental professionals, had never encountered &#8220;Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,&#8221; an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}