READING RESPONSE, \”Body Ritual among the Nacirema\”

For this reading response, you are expected to substantively respond to one or two of the questions below. To effectively accomplish this, you must produce a “close reading” of the text by integrating into your response quotations taken from the essay and explain how the author’s statement(s) correspond to the interpretations/contentions you are attempting to develop. Be careful not to let your integration of quoted material supersede your actual response to the text. Thus, when integrating quotations, keep each short and precisely relevant to your discussion; the overuse of quotations may compromise your grade for this assignment.Grades will be based upon the level of engagement and analytical complexity of your response to both Miner’s essay and one or two the questions posed below.The response should be a minimum of two pages in length and formatted according to the guidelines identified in the course syllabus.QUESTIONSWHEN DRAFTING THE RESPONSE, BE CERTAIN TO IDENTIFY WHICH QUESTION(S) YOU’RE ANSWERING.1. What is Miner’s purpose (argument) in writing about the behaviors of the Nacirema?2. Where does Miner make reference to economy influencing the behaviors of the Nacirema? How does such reliance on an economic system force the Nacirema into a class-based system, as evidenced in Miner’s anthropological analysis?3. What is the significance of Miner’s statement near the essay’s onset: “if all of the logically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, [the anthropologist] is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe”?4. What is Miner’s purpose in citing and describing so many Nacirema rituals in such elaborate detail? How does Miner use language to affect the presentation (and reading) of his anthropological analysis of the Nacirema?5. Why does Miner cite the anthropologist, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowksi, at the essay’s close: “Looking from far and above, from our high places of safety in the developed civilization, it is easy to see all the crudity and irrelevance of magic. But without its power and guidance early man could not have mastered his practical difficulties as he has done, nor could man have advanced to the higher stages of civilization”?