Horace Mitchell Miner

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Horace Mitchell Miner was born on May 26, 1912, in St. Paul, Minnesota and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in November 1993. Horace Miner was an anthropologist -- a social scientist who studies human cultural variation. He was 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. After that he taught at Chicago, at other universities in the United States, and on a Fulbright Fellowship at a college in Uganda. He also worked elsewhere in Africa, and in South America. He published several books; two of which were Culture and Agriculture (1949), and City in Modern Africa (1967).

However, he is just as famous for a humorous essay entitled "Body Ritual among the Nacirema", linked below.