A different anthropology

Hi all! 

Today i'm going to talk about the curriculum of anthropology at the university of Chile. After some years, I realized the curriculum of anthropology in this university it's very badly built. I will tell you some reasons why I say this. First,  anthropology it's a career  that in the future implies share with the people, and apply the tools that the discipline gives you,  but throght the five years of this career you have very few fields. We don't have much oportunities to put into practice what whe have learned. 
On the other hand, our curriculum it's not very well thought out and does'nt have a continuity. The theoretical currents are passed in a disorderly manner, so we are not clear about which perspectives are before and which are later.

Also, there is no comunication between teachers, so they put all the evaluations together.
This means that we have a lot of academic load, and we end up very stressed. In addition the teachers should be more pedagogical, because sometimes just repeat as a robot, and we don't really learn.

The infrastructure is not ready to receive so many students. I remember that once we had to sit on the floor because there were no more chairs. Sometimes the computers are not enough.


In spite of all this, I think that I have learned a lot, but it could be more if these things were changed.


So, what do you think about anthropology curriculum?

My next summer holidays

Hi all!
Today I'm going to talk about what places I want to visit in my next summer vacations.
I'm not sure what places I would like to visit, but I'm sure that I like to travel far away of Santiago city. I saved money for this occasion, so depending of this amount I would like to plan my holidays. For now, I would like to know the north of Chile, because the south I already know it. The last summer I backpacked with my ex boyfriend and some friends at south of Chile, and we met "Entre Lagos", "Valdivia", "Puerto Fuy", "Ensenada" and other places... But, now I would like to know the north because I never have travel there.

On the other hand, there is he option of traveling with my cousin and her friends to Brazil, but I'm not sure, because I feel that the situation in Brazil has been different since President Bolsonaro was elected. Anyway, I love Brazil, its beaches, its climate, its people. I love the energy they transmit, their language and their traditional dance: the samba. However, we have not yet planned which places to visit and where to stay, it's just an idea.

Also, I would like to travel with my family, go to the places we always visit: camping at the rappel lake, visit Lipimavida, or also Pichilemu. I like to travel with my family, I feel that in this way we maintain the emotional bonds, which are so precious

Zombies!!

Today I'm going to tell you about something I knew a little while ago. About ZOMBIFICATION!!!



He told us that both Christianity and Voodoo are religions that still live in Haiti; but voodoo remains a taboo in society for all the years of trying to eradicate it. This religion is associated with the zombification process: a REAL PROCESS according to this teacher!


A few days ago a teacher who had been three years in Haiti, went to talk us about this country.

According to the internet, a zombie consists of a dead man resurrected by magical means by a sorcerer to turn him into his slave. However, the teacher told us that the most common thing in the tradition was to zombify someone for two reasons: for adultery (in women) or for treason. Through the mixture of different ingredients (among which is the poison of a puffer fish, bones and human remains) a powder is made that is inhaled and turns you into a zombie. This posion damages your central nervous system for life, and makes you look dead; without facial expressions, without any will, and with an emaciated appearance. Undead.

According to the professor, the French conquerors when they learned about the properties of this posion, began to occupy it to have more slaves. Now, zombification would be banned in Haiti. He thinks he saw at least two zombies when he visited Haiti.

Do you think this is real?

Future?

Hi all!

Today, I will talk about what kind of job I would like to have in the future. This post is related with the past post, because many things that I think in the past for my future, still present now, including the uncertainty....hehe
 The labor field of the anthropology is very difficult, so I'm not very secure about my future or what kind of job I would like to have, but I think I would like to do many different thing at the same time. I would'nt like only to work on what I studied, because I have always rejected the routine. I would like mix differents jobs and hobbies, or changing projects often. One of the things that i'm sure is my taste for travel for all the world applying what I learned in anthropology, and while maybe work in other thing. I would like to make a film or documentary on an interesting topic of anthropology. On the other hand I would like to work on some public proyect or something similar where I can contribute something with my knowledge...Sometimes I think that I would like teach, or maybe study other career like dance. I would love mix the dance with anthropology and make a experiment with both disciplines. As you can see I like many things and I'm very indecisive:( But, I think is better think about the future when i'm there...

Social Anthropology

Hi all, this time I will talk about my career and the reasons why I chose it.


Well, when I was a kid I wanted study many things and also I wanted to travel all over the world. At the school, I wanted study theatre or some career associated like dance or physical education, because I really liked sport and performance. But with the time, when I was an adolescent I started prefer careers related with indian history and past like archaeology or pedagogy in history. Finally when I had to choose the career for my future I decided to study anthropology, because I liked archaeology...a beautiful career that mixing many things that I liked: history; dinosaur; travel and new cultures (different ways of seeing the world).I imagined me travelling for all the world, meeting different monuments of different cultures. But with the time in the career, I realized that I liked much more what happened with the people in the present in relation to the past. On the other hand, I think that I can help to solve human problems much more in social anthropology and also this career combined my desire to travel and my taste for differents societies.

 
Actually, I so happy learning about anthropology theory, etnography,  differents cultures and others types of life in the modern context.

In the future, I would like work in differents places of my country, and later in other countries of América. I would like to be a contribution to these societies and not only an academic more.

"Nocturnal animals"

Hi, today I'm going to write about my favorite movie until now.

Some time ago,  my brother and I saw "nocturnal animals"; I really

liked that movie. This film, is about a man who after being abandoned 

by his girlfriend, writes a novel to get revenge and transmit everything

he felt during their relationship and after his breakup. The novel is very

crude and occupies a metaphor that makes us all shake. I knew that after 

seeing it, it leaves you a bit anguished and with a lot of sorrow. When I 

reflected on the movie, it seemed to leave a very interesting message. 

The film, in a very cruel way, make us question the gender roles that we

have built in our minds, and to measure to what extent these can affect 

the other person. It mainly touches on the issue of masculinity, of what 

happens when a man is more sensitive than what is expected or when he

does not fulfill the protective role. It relates the conflicts that a man lives

internally when he is rejected for breaking with these schemes that make

us so unhappy. Please, if you have the opportunity, see it.

My best holidays

Hi all!

In 2017 I had the chance to travel outside the country and know many beautiful places. I had never traveled outside the Chile, so this was a very special occasion for me. I traveled with my boyfriend and his family with which I had a lot of fun. We went to Cuba... a beautiful place that mixing many things that I liked: tropical climate; idyllic beaches with a turquoise color; nature; cuban salsa in the pubs and very nice people... We stay here for about two weeks: one week in the Havana, and other week in Varadero. We met many places like the Old Havana, Morro Castle, The Capitolio, The Malecon, old buildings and the beaches.

Cuba is a wonderful and very quiet place to visit. It's people have a lot of energy and joy. You can tell how different people are in different countries. His life is characterized by being more cheerful, and by relating in community...

This was my appreciation when I visited this exquisite and magical country.

Welcome to Guayana Francesa

Hi. This is my first post of this semester. Today I will talk about the places or countries I would like to visit. Well, I would like to visit many places, but now I will choose only one. Recently I saw pictures of Guayana Francesa, and I realized that this place mixing many things that I liked: tropical climate; Amazon jungle; differents cultures; diverse animals and the few people who go to the country. I love hot climate and I hate the crowds. I doesn't know many things about this place, but I'm sure I will like it. When I stay there , I would like to tour the amazonian jungle and browse it. On the other hand, I would like to know the islands around, the differents cultures of Guayana and their custom and gastronomy. The animals are also something I would like to know.

If I really like Guayana, I would like to learn the official language (french) and maybe live there for a few time.

Blogs

Hi all!

A blog is a website to publish opinions, publicize information, discuss these, or to publish things from your daily life ... There are many people who use them very often to express themselves or report things...Now, I have to say that I did'nt really like blogs before, because is too difficult to me speak in english, and in general, I'm not good at writing about myself or differents topics. But with the time, I liked the experience because it helped me write better in english and express some thoughts...Now I would like to include other topics or other activities related to writing, like an interview, survey or read other publications and comment on them. Refering to the topics, I would like to incorporate topics related with music, sport, art, movies, or other contingent issues that are necessary to discuss in our country like the presidential elections, education, public health, old people, women, inmigrants, children in the Sename, and other. 

To finish, I'm very happy with the experience, I think I learned a lot with each activity and it was very nice to be in class. Also my partners are very nice and funny. Thanks teacher for the experience!

Abortion

Hi all!

Today I will talk about abortion... I think the abortion is one of the main ways to recognize rights that women should have on their bodies. For this reason, I believe that abortion must go beyond the three causes, and it must be allowed at any time that a woman so decides, because in any case it will continue to be carried out and many women will continue to risk their lives in this operation if it's not done supervised by people who know about health. Those who are against abortion (mainly conservative and religious sectors) only worry about babies being born but not about the life they can lead in the future, but I think "life doesn't end when we born, it's much more than this". The life of unwanted or abandoned babies in the SENAME is usually full of violence of all kinds... You don't have to be expert to know this.. So, why bring a baby to the world that can suffer so much violence from different people and institutions that don't really care about their well-being?  In addition many of  mothers who decide to have the baby don't have the necessary economic conditions to take care of him. Finally, all women should be can to decided to be mothers or not, leaving behind the guilt that other people have put us for so many years in the head.

Margaret Mead, a woman I admire

Margaret Mead was an American anthropologist born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia and died in 1978. In her ethnographic research of the 1920s and 1930s, she challenged the sexist biologist view that prevailed in the social sciences according to which the sexual division of the work in the modern family was due to an innate difference between the behavior of men and women. In his comparative study Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Mead (1935) she introduced the revolutionary idea that the human species is enormously malleable, sexual roles and behaviors vary according to socio-cultural contexts. It was thus a precursor in the use of the concept "gender" widely used later in feminist studies.

Accident in bicycle

Hello everyone! Today I will tell you one of the accidents that I remember the most when I was little ... When I was 7 years old my mother decided to take me seated on the bicycle frame, for which I had to always remember to keep my legs elevated so that they wouldn't get caught in the bicycle's ray ... However, in a moment of carelessness I lowered my legs and one of my feet got caught ... it was so painful! My foot turned for a moment until I screamed so loudly that my mom noticed and slowed down ... My foot was injured and bruised so I wore a bandage for a while, and also I had to go to school wearing my slippers! My classmates laughed a lot at this situation and they wouldn't stop staring at me ... with time I started to heal and it was no longer necessary to go to school with slippers, but it was so comfortable that I didn't want to take them off.

My favorite subject of this semester

Hi all! Today I will talk about my favorite subjects of this semester. The subject that I really like is "Mapuche"; first because the teacher is so kind and cool, he really interested in our learning. He is mapuche and his point of view is very interesting because he talk in first person about his culture and history.  The story about the mapuche always has been related and constructed by others like europeans and chileans persons. So, all the time, we talk about the mapuche from only one perspective. Is necessary listen and understand others perspectives about the mapuche and the"chilean history", above everything mapuche voices. Anyway, I love this class, so I try to be there all the time.

My second favorite subject is "Gender Anthropoly", because this subject makes you question many things about the way you see your life. The teachers of this class are very intelligent and interesting. The gender has been construct by society, defining gender roles and placing the women in a lower position. In addition there are others forms of oppression that crosses the gender, like class, race, age, etc.

Memory

I love pictures because I think that always can represent an important moment of your life, also help to not forget of beautiful moments with different people. However, I don't take pictures very often, but I like too much to observe the pictures that other people take.

Well, I like this photo because it reminds me beautiful moments with my friends of university.  This photo was taken by my boyfriend in Puerto Fuy, south of Chile. We were doing a fieldwork where we met many nice persons. In this way, we saw how many problems afflicted these people, and how no one paid attention to this being a small town. This event marked a before and after in our lives, and we increase the desire to be able to help the people with our profession.

This photo means a lot to me, because those women are the best friends that I could have. They are always there when I need them.

Drugs

Well, I think is difficult talk about the drugs, because many things that are said about them are subjetives are social constructions of the people, and generally, people who don't have the certainty about what they talk or moralist people.
Many times, this people have some interests and hiddens intentions to say things about the drugs, because we can see how the government permit the disproportionate use of cigarette and alcohol, even though they are very dangerous for the health and have many others negatives consequences, for example: for the family ... So, what is the limit?
I think there are drugs that really cause negatives consequences in our body like addiction or physical and psychological dependence (cocaine, heroine, etc), but there are other drugs like cannabis that inclusive cause positives consequences for the human like emotional and physical well-being, relaxation and calm. Legal or ilegal, it's  very important to a parent and institutional education around these drugs like cannabis, so that way they can have a good use and future children won't have bad experiences.

About technology

I think the technology is not only the laptops, smartphones, computers, etc.  The technology is everything modificated at the service of the human being: from a spoon for tea. However, the technology of this century and the end of the 20th century has had the characteristic that in a single object are fulfilled many functions: work, study, play, have fun, make friends, etc. This type of technology at the same time, is a good and bad thing, because is very useful but at the same time is very counterproductive for people who don't know control their use, or who can lose the ability to have relationships outside of a screen... Anyway, if I had to choose one as my favorite I would choose my cellphone, mainly because it serves to communicate more easily through whatssap or a call,  you can also surf on the internet. I think it's very useful when you need to communicate urgently with someone or you'll encounter with an other person...

I got a phone for first time ten years ago, when I was a child... Today, I would like to use the phone less and less , only for emergency calls, I don't like to feel dependent on this. Without the phone, I think it would be very difficult to communicate with other people because it's part of my normal life. The letters are no longer in use...maybe I would be even more unpunctual than I already am, or the other way around?...

Why anthropology?

Well, when I was a kid I wanted study many things and also I wanted to travel all over the world. First, I wanted study theatre or some career associated like dance or physical education, because I really liked sport and performance. But with the time, when I was an adolescent I started prefer careers related with indian history and past like archaeology or pedagogy in history. Finally when I had to choose the career for my future I decided to study social antropology, because I thought that this career combined my desire to travel and my taste for differents societies.

Actually, I so happy learning about anthropology theory, etnography,  differents cultures and others types of life in the modern context.

In the future, I would like work in differents places of my country, and later in other countries of América. I would like to be a contribution to these societies and not only an academic more.

Selk'nam: People of the southern zone of Chile, exterminated by foreign colonialists

Life..

Hi everyone, i'm Josefina. I was born in Santiago at 21 years ago.  My parents couldn't have babys, but after a long time, finally they created a nice familly with three kids.  When I was two years, i was operated of CIA, but actually I have a normal life without problems.

when I was two years, with my brother and mather

When I was a girl a teenager too, I wanted study many things. First, I wanted study theatre or some career associated like dance or physical education, but with the time I started prefer careers related with history and past like archaeology. Finally I decided to study social antropology, and i so happy learning about  differents cultures and others types of life.

I love travel for the country with my friends and boyfriend. I like pass the time with the nature and met people for differents places.

Me and my boyfriend in a peninsula of Licanrray

Migration

I like this picture because it triggers in my person differents feelings and thoughts. This photo represent one of the great migrations of wildlife: wildebeest cross the Mara River in Maasai Mara, Kenya.  Commonly we look this events of nature with great astonishment, but when its about people migration, we look at that in another way. Why does it happen?