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    Storytelling (Synetics) Using Stories to Inspire ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary Most people have been conditioned to believe that business communication must be clear‚ rational‚ and objective‚ with no place for emotion or subjective thinking. Yet the most powerful‚ persuasive communication has a human element. Often delivered in a simply and personally through the telling of stories. The main goal of this document is show how to use personal stories

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    What is reflexivity‚ and why is it important in the doing of anthropology? Anthropologists research‚ observe and write in order to produce ethnographies. Though many travel to foreign locations to examine natives and exotic ethnic groups‚ others conduct ethnographic research within their own culture. However‚ is the process of ethnography essentially the same regardless of the diverse cultures anthropologists examine‚ and the use of a recording device rather than a notebook? Though there are similarities

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    describe the meaning of anthropology and its scope. And closer examine principles that govern production‚ distribution and consumption in horticultural and peasant communities. Anthropology is the study of man. But economic anthropology corresponds to one of fields of anthropology which is known as ‘cultural anthropology’ – the study of human culture and behavior across cultures. It describes and explains human condition across all cultures and times. Economic anthropology is the study of the economic

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    Children in the first Plane of Development are in the Sensitive Period for language‚ and it is our responsibility to prepare an environment rich in language. One way to do this is to tell stories to the children. “Storytelling is relating a tale to one or more listeners through voice and gesture. It is not the same as reading a story aloud or reciting a piece from memory or acting out a drama-though it shares common characteristics with these arts. The storyteller looks into the eyes of the

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    Ryan Casey Anthropology in the News Contagious Yawning Contagious yawning is something you can’t control. Infants after 11 weeks after birth start yawning and study’s say that around the age of four‚ children start to develop “contagious yawning”. Doctors use this to see if the child has a disorder such as autism. What the doctors would do is see if the child response to someone else’s yawn. If the child does respond then they would know if the child’s brain is functioning right. This is a

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    Sociology and Anthropology By: Ashley Tenney Sociology studies society and social behavior through many different methods. The most popular methods are cross-cultural‚ survey‚ observational‚ experimental‚ case study and correlational. The survey method is the interviewing or giving questionnaires to a mass number of people. This data is then analyzed to learn about similarities‚ differences and trends among the selected group. This analysis can then be used to predict trends in the population

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    What Is Anthropology

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    McGraw-Hill © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Using These Slides These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters‚ as well as selected photographs‚ maps‚ and tables. Students may find these outlines useful as a study guide or a tool for review. Instructors may find these files useful as

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    November 20‚ 2013 Cultural Anthropology Fr. Edgar Javier‚ svd Activity No.1 – November 6‚ 2013 1. Define the following terms: a. Anthropology “The word anthropology is derived from the Greek words anthropo‚ meaning “human beings” or “humankind‚” and logia‚ translated as “knowledge of” or “the study of.”1 Likewise‚ it is a study which comprises four subfields: the physical anthropology‚ archaeology‚ linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology or ethnology‚ which constitutes a

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    Medical Anthropology A. McElroy Aus: D.Levinson‚ M. Ember (Hrsg.) Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Henry Holt‚ New York 1996; (Permission given by Prof. McElroy Jan. 21th 2002) Medical anthropology is the study of human health and disease‚ health care systems‚ and biocultural adaptation. The discipline draws upon the four fields of anthropology to analyse and compare the health of regional populations and of ethnic and cultural enclaves‚ both prehistoric and contemporary. Collaboration

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    program is Anthropology. My background as a Montessori teacher has been the impetus for the community observation and development approach I’ve taken to my daily life throughout my career. Dr. Maria Montessori‚ the founder of the Montessori method‚ and a person I hold in the highest regard‚ also studied Anthropology and likewise applied it to the philosophy that would define her legacy. This semester I had the opportunity to enroll in the BGS colloquia course in Forensic Anthropology lead by

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