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

Comprehend the role of schemas and scripts in memory recall and distortion.

Recognize the phenomenology of imagination inflation on memory recall.

Examine the empirical evidence surrounding false memories and memory distortions.

Understand the legal mechanisms available for discharging a contract.

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Definitions:

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