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.