Problem 1: Who are the Nacirema? When did you discover the joke? What point do you think Miner is trying to make in this article?
Problem 2: How does Body Ritual Among the Nacirema help us understand our own view of other cultures and how we are viewed by other cultures?
Problem 3: Why do some of the practices and rituals of other cultures seem odd or foreign to us? How do our own cultural norms affect our understanding and perception of other cultures?
Problem 4: What assumptions do we make about other cultures? What are some examples of practices in other cultures that we find odd and hard to understand? (For example, arranged marriages, eating and preparing unusual foods, ritual body piercing, rites of passage.)