<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" </Td> </Tr> <P> The original use of the term in a social science context was in "Body Ritual among the Nacirema", which satirizes anthropological papers on "other" cultures, and the culture of the United States . Horace Mitchell Miner wrote the paper and originally published it in the June 1956 edition of American Anthropologist . </P> <P> In the paper, Miner describes the Nacirema, a little - known tribe living in North America . The way in which he writes about the curious practices that this group performs distances readers from the fact that the North American group described actually corresponds to modern - day Americans of the mid-1950s . The article sometimes serves as a demonstration of a gestalt shift with relation to sociology . </P> <P> Miner presents the Nacirema as a group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles . The paper describes the typical Western ideal for oral cleanliness, as well as providing an outside view on hospital care and on psychiatry . The Nacirema are described as having a highly developed market economy that has evolved within a rich natural habit . </P>

Who are the nacirema about which miner is writing in the article body ritual among the nacirema