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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Horace Miner

First published 1963
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A satirical study of the customs and beliefs of the "Nacirema" ("American" spelt backwards).

Originally published in ''American Anthropologist'', 1956, 58(3), pp. 503-507.

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