Horace Miner's body ritual among the Nacirema In Horace Miner's article, "Body ritual among the Nacirema", he talks about a tribe and describes the their strange behavior. It talks about how the tribe performs these strange daily rituals and how their peculiarity is extreme, but in reality it refers to Americans as a whole (Miner). Miner uses this style of writing to most effectively prove his point: that Americans are ethnocentric. Miner does an exceptional job of disguising the Naciremas as Americans. Some of the things he masks are the bathroom, which he says is a purifying sanctuary. He disguises the medicine cabinet as the main device in the shrine, a bundle of pig hair on a stick as a toothbrush, and magical potions as medicine (Miner). In this article, Miner provides some hints that the Nairema are indeed Americans. The fact that Nacirema is spelled backwards is American is a huge clue in itself. Another clue is the “men of the holy mouth”. If you sit down and think about it for a second, it's obvious to realize that they really are dentists. Even the self...