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Paper Instructions:

The Emerald Forest

(a) comparison of the authority structure implied by the chief's statement, "If I told a man to do what he does not want to do, I would no longer be chief," with the authority structures of American society and/or your own society;

(b) an examination of the role of technology in each culture, including its relationship to the natural environment, and why the Westerners are called the termite people;

(c) the ways in which spirituality is revealed in the culture of the Invisible People;

(d) which culture, in your view, makes people happier and better satisfies human needs (say what these are, and include spirituality and community);

(e) how Freud, Durkheim, OR Marx might answer part (d) above, and why (very important; should be at least 200 words); and

(f) which culture would you rather live in, and why? Whichever culture you choose, what might our culture learn from the culture of the Invisible People?