What Was the Purpose of Miner's Description of the Nacirema

question 32

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of Miner's description of the Nacirema culture?

• A)He wanted to make the familiar strange
• B)He was conducting "salvage" ethnography to record the culture of a people threatened with assimilation and cultural extinction
• C)He wanted to make the strange familiar
• D)He was writing an ethnographic account of a remote people located in the tropical jungle of Amazonia
• E)He wanted to demonstrate how cultures evolved over time

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