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Towards an Understanding of Africology
Author(s): Victor O Okafor
New Sixth Edition Now Available! Since 1968 when the first Black Studies department was established at San Francisco State University, more than three hundred other departments, programs and centers have surfaced on various campuses of the nation, including Ph.D. programs. Towards an Understan...
Behavioral Deception Detection: A Criminal Case Study
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Sample Deception—a deliberate attempt to mislead others—is a common communication device (DePaulo et al., 1996). People admit to telling lies in 27% of face-to-face conversations, 37% of phone calls, and 14% of the emails they send (Hancock et al., 2004). These lies commonly serve to grease the w...
A Social Mess
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Abstract When a university coach is encouraged to use social media, his inappropriate sense of humor and unfamiliarity with Facebook gets him into trouble. Fans and relatives of the players push back through social media creating a public relations nightmare for the university. , basic_html
Hassan, Ami, and Dalia's Mom: Narrative Medicine in Pediatrics
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Sample Communication among human beings has become increasingly mediated by technology in many areas, including medicine, where the mediation has moved doctors and patients apart. Physician-patient communication has been studied from various perspectives, including Narrative Medicine, which deals...
Reading and Writing for Academic Success
Author(s): Susan L Ertel
When most people sit down to write something, either for a class, for fun, or for work, they dread it? Why? What about putting words on paper is so intimidating? One thing might be the judgment factor that is placed on most writing assignments in school. The same can be said for reading. Som...
Inside Anthropology
Author(s): Marjorie Snipes
Anthropology as Intercultural Critique: Challenging the Singularity of Islamic Identity
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Sample Anthropology’s investigative focus has been on understanding cultural differences (Abu-Lughod 1991). Hence, even as critics point out that anthropology as a discipline has been primarily a study of the non-Western “other” by the Western “self” (Abu-Lughod 1991), constructing a divide betwe...