Horace Miner

This hyperlinked biography, from Minnesota State University's E-Museum, has information about Miner's life and work, including links to online resources about the author.

Here's "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" in etext. Compare it to the version in your textbook. Does it matter which version a student reads, in your opinion?

An interesting way to see the scope of Miner's work is to browse through the list of his citations at the Library of Congress. Did you find anything there that surprises you?

Looking for a place to start researching the Nacirema, but not sure where to begin? The homepage of "The Nacirema Web: Resources on the Nacirema People" has lots of links and is a good place to check out.

If the general topic of social and cultural anthropology sounds interesting, here's the homepage of the institute for that very discipline at the University of Oxford. You're bound to get some good research ideas at the site.

Let's say your search at Oxford sparked an interest in ethnography. Take a look at the homepage of the Smithsonian Institute, and search on your favorite cultural group (say, the Vikings?).

Using this Google.com directory, pick one specific culture that performs a body ritual and compare it to the Nacirema. Did any of the listings in this directory surprise you?