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What Do Americans Value? (Williams 1970)

What Do Americans Value? (Williams 1970). Achievement and success Hard work Efficiency and practicality Science and rationality Progress Material comfort Equality Freedom Democracy The superiority of their own group. Problems Identified and Resolved in All Known Cultures (Murdock 1945).

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What Do Americans Value? (Williams 1970)

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  1. What Do Americans Value?(Williams 1970) Achievement and success Hard work Efficiency and practicality Science and rationality Progress Material comfort Equality Freedom Democracy The superiority of their own group

  2. Problems Identified and Resolved in All Known Cultures (Murdock 1945) • Beliefs about death • Bodily adornment • Calendar • Cleanliness training • Cooking • Cosmology • Courtship • Dance • Decorative art • Divination • Dream interpretation • Education • Ethics • Etiquette • Faith healing • Numerals • Personal names • Population policy • Property rights • Puberty customs • Religious rituals • Sexual restrictions • Soul concepts • Sports • Superstition • Surgery • Tool making • Trade • Weaning • Weather control

  3. Your tasks: Select a subculture, counterculture, or indigenous culture and hunt for visual evidence as to how they have resolved at least ten problems on the list. Use sources on the Media Center’s Research Databases page as a starting point (passwords on p.14 in planner). Create a powerpoint, no more than five slides, that includes images to explain the culture’s resolution of problems. Put the powerpoint in my transfer folder. Be able to give a brief overview of the culture and explain, verbally, how it resolved the problems.

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