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Release into the Public Domain[edit]

The original paper has apparently entered the public domain [1]. Wikisource could use a copy. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:06, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Done --Jcmaco | Talk 15:58, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

I don't see anything on the referenced page that indicates that it is PD. How was this conclusion arrived at? ;Bear 06:40, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)

It doesn't say it now, but it definitely said it then. -- Cyrius|✎ 08:17, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Spoiler Warning Needed[edit]

this page should have a spoiler warning... in the respect that a friend of mine did not finish reading the original piece but found out the meaning here. SiriusAlphaCMa 06:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, this definatly needs a spoiler warning. Anyone else have an opinion on this? Also, I've found that "Asu" (as in USA) is also excepted and used in the same way. Could we perhaps add something on that? -obstructio 1832 (CST) 10.27.06

I just added the Spoiler tags as requested. --208.127.64.127 17:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Satire of what/whom?[edit]

The text currently says the article is a satire on anthropology. I believe it is more of a satire on American culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.225.30.91 (talk) 00:48, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've always interpreted it as being a satire on how Americans view other cultures, especially primitive ones, i.e. its intention was to make the reader realize how biased our point-of-view is by showing them our culture from a different point-of-view. 76.121.211.59 (talk) 00:02, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But also a satire specifically about how anthropologists wrote about other cultures.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:27, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

need for reversion[edit]

A recent update at 13:18, 10 March 2011 by IP 198.200.181.207 removed the satire claim, but also made the first sentence an incomplete sentence. This needs either revision or reversion. --Seltzerfish (talk) 21:20, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hoaxes in science[edit]

Not sure this applies; the 1956 article was not really intended to fool anybody for long, and didn't fool anybody for long, except the extremely gullible who didn't think about what they were reading. Some of the subsequent publications do not seem to have even the very shallowly and superficially deceptive elements of the 1956 article... AnonMoos (talk) 11:01, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Holy crap a floating sentence with no period?[edit]

"This is when strange becomes familiar"

Really? Tell me this is a typo, wikipedia. --70.124.82.177 (talk) 18:05, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1957 use[edit]

The year following the anthropological article, the B movie Hot Rod Rumble has a closing credit "A Nacirema Production."Kdammers (talk) 11:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Neologism?[edit]

The current lead paragraph calls it a "neologism". It's 2022, 71 years ago seems pretty long ago for it to apply. Maybe that's just me. Jason Quinn (talk) 09:29, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Neologism" might give the idea that it's an attempt at coining a technical term. In fact, it's a fanciful proper name; I don't see why it's any more of a neologism than fictional geographical names which appear in Tolkien etc ("Mirkwood" and so on). AnonMoos (talk) 11:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Original use"[edit]

Not sure the original use can be in the 1950s, I'm currently reading an anarchist newspaper from 1913 that uses the term (actually "Acirema") in the same way as described in the article. The paper was edited by Samuel Hammersmark at the time. The article is titled Tales of a Traveler and attributed to "Everyman". The full run of the paper is at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101648246 and the article occurs in the July 1913 issue. 174.21.187.120 (talk) 02:07, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and looks like it occurs here in October 1913: https://hgarchives.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/everyman-issue-on-joseph-fels-sept-oct-1913.pdf 174.21.187.120 (talk) 02:10, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article is not about the concept of reversing the word "America(n)", but about an anthropological satire of the 1950s, and subsequent developments based on it. What you found may be interesting, but if there's no evidence that it had any influence on 1950s anthropologists, then it may not be directly relevant to this article. AnonMoos (talk) 08:21, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]