I found that after reading Miner and Chagnon’s articles, I thought it was eye opening to see how the two authors originally expected the two tribes to behave like they were raised even though the tribes are isolated away from the modern world. “The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men, involve discomfort and torture” (Miner, 2013, p. 90). How does Miner know that the tribe sees these practices as a discomfort or as torture? Just because in a more modernized society some would see these the practices of the Nacirema as torturous and those such practices would have stopped, but the Indians continue to go to the holy-mouth-man for rites. Chagnon expected a friendlier welcome than what was actually provided for him and in the
