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Material or Nonmaterial?

Culture comes in two forms. Material culture is the physical stuff a society makes — buildings, tools, clothing, food. Nonmaterial culture is everything you can’t touch — beliefs, values, norms, language, and symbols. Meet the two kinds, then sort real items into each.

The two kinds of culture

Two kinds of cultureexplore them, then sort real items
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