This activity provides links and an overview of activities that can be used in conjunction with the satirical anthropology paper, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” The paper was written by Horce Miner in 1956, and it is meant to call attention to how anthropologists often “other” different cultures through their ethnographic research. Nacirema is American backwards, and the piece is written about Americans in the 1950s. However, Miner writes the piece in a way that is meant to distance readers (who are most likely American) from their own culture in order to view it as an observer.