A major point of the ethnography "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" is to:
a. Show how foolish people's rituals are.
b. Help us look at our own culture from a different perspective.
c. Promote practices of preventive medicine.
d. Increase our respect for primitive cultures.
e. Put a little laughter into our dreary lives.
B
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