gjm comments on Framing Effects in Anthropology - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Yvain 29 March 2009 10:05PM

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Comment author: gjm 30 March 2009 12:45:30AM 0 points [-]

You have (I assume) a copy-and-paste error: the phrase "The concept of culture" appears out of the blue in the middle of a paragraph, where it doesn't make any sense.

For what it's worth, the name "Nacirema" triggered my something-funny-going-on-here detectors right at the start, at which point it was all rather too obvious. Perhaps it's only for that reason that I found it a bit long.

(I liked it anyway. Were you inspired by this book?)

Comment author: Yvain 30 March 2009 12:58:19AM 1 point [-]

Copy-paste error fixed. Thank you. I'm afraid I wasn't inspired at all, though I wish I could take credit. The piece really is by an anthropologist named Horace Miner.

The book looks clever, though.