Culture. The volume contains an array of scholarly investigations into American social anthropology as well as one more article in the Nacirema series, by Willard Walker of Wesleyan University: "The Retention of Folk Linguistic Concepts and the ti'ycir Caste in Contemporary Nacireman Culture" which laments the corrosive and subjugating ritual of attending sguwlz. On phonology, the anthropologist notes: This refers to the conceptualization of the English vowel system based on orthography (with 5 vowels), which is in stark contrast to the actual system (with nine vowels and several diphthongs). Nacirema vs. Teamsterville Gerry Philipsen (1992) studies what he terms "speech codes" among the Nacirema, which he contrasts with the speech codes of another semi-fictionalized group of Americans, the inhabitants of Teamsterville culture. His Nacirema comprises primarily middle-class west-coast Americans. See also Iracema, a character named after the anagram of "America" Defamiliarization, the artistic technique of presenting common things in an unfamiliar or strange way References Additional bibliography External links Body Ritual among the Nacirema (PDF) from American Anthropologist, June 1956 Body Ritual among the Nacirema in Wikisource format. The Mysterious Fall of the Nacirema from Natural History, December 1972 (Internet Archive Aug 07, 2004 version) "Battle RItual among the Nacirema" by Finn Johannson at Ethnography.com (2015) Who are the Nacirema from Living Anthropologically, (2013, revised 2018) American culture Society of the United States Cultural anthropology Social anthropology Ethnographic literature Humorous hoaxes in science Satire 1950s neologisms