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What Was the Purpose of Miner's Description of the Nacirema

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What was the purpose of Miner's description of the Nacirema culture?


A) He wanted to make the familiar strange
B) He was conducting "salvage" ethnography to record the culture of a people threatened with assimilation and cultural extinction
C) He wanted to make the strange familiar
D) He was writing an ethnographic account of a remote people located in the tropical jungle of Amazonia
E) He wanted to demonstrate how cultures evolved over time

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