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) 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

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.