Horace Mitchell Miner

Horace Mitchell Miner (born on May 26, 1912, in St. Paul, Minnesota, died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in November 1993) was an anthropologist, particularly interested in those societies of his time that were still closely tied to the earth?. In 1955, he earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, going on to teach there, as well as at other universities in the United States, and on a Fulbright Fellowship at a college in Uganda. He later worked elsewhere in Africa, and in South America. He published several books, including Culture and Agriculture (1949), and City in Modern Africa (1967). However, he is equally famous for a satirical essay entitled "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," which satirizes American culture from an anthropological perspective.

References

• Body Ritual among the Nacirema from American Anthropologist, June 1956