Horace Mitchell Miner
Anthropologist, Author
1912 – 1993
Who was Horace Mitchell Miner?
Horace Mitchell Miner was an anthropologist, particularly interested in those languages of his time that were still closely tied to the earth and agricultural practices. During World War II, he served as a counterintelligence agent in Italy and Japan. 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, and City in Modern Africa. However, he is equally famous for a satirical essay entitled "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," which satirizes American culture from an anthropological perspective and, as the Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology states, "...offered incipient cultural critiques of Euro-American arrogance, by showing that magic is not the prerogative of non-Western societies". The work was also featured in American Anthropologist
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- Born
- May 26, 1912
Minnesota - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Died
- Nov 26, 1993
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on July 23, 2013
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