Category: Culture

Horace Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” — This is a classic article for SOC 100 students that helps to explain and understand ethnocentrism.

FacingtheFuture.org has also prepared a Nacirema lesson with a short excerpt from the full article that can be useful and turned into a low-stakes, in-class (or online in breakout rooms) assignment.

Martin Harris, “India’s Sacred Cow”