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English 4

Well ... here we are, last post of the course. I have mixed feelings about my experience of learning English in college. On the one hand, I cannot say that I have not learned because the course helped me to meet again with the knowledge about English I had from school. However, if it is true that we do not develop many more skills than we already have incorporated. I took English 3 and 4. My opinion about blogs has changed a bit. In English 3 I found that they were useless. I think it was my own laziness. Now in this course, in blogs I dedicated myself to expanding vocabulary and refreshing the memory of grammar, which was something that I had almost forgotten. I still need to meet again with grammar rules and tenses, I feel they are my weak points. Of course, the pronunciation too. I don't think I take English classes outside of the university, but if I did take private language classes, they would be Portuguese or French. I think several of us will give a similar answer: t...
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The changes I would made to the anthropology's study program

With 4 years that I have been studying here, there are some (actually many) thing that I would change in the study program. I dont want to say that the program are bad, because I'm aware that there are others more deficient. There is much to say about the curriculum. The knowlegde they teach us are so old that its becoming obsolete. Few teachers update their knowlegde and theories, so we end up learning the same in almost all subjects For me, the teaching method are the weakness point of the study program. In first place, the professors often teach us more history of anthropology than the discipline itself: Instead of teaching us how to think anthropologically or talk to us about what its distinguishing with respect other social sciencies, they are content with teach us what theory replaces another. Secondly, more practical work is needed, we need more fieldwork. In the Department of Anthropology exist the idea that we learn by falling. Of course I share that idea, isn't ...
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How did I get to the anthropology?

Hello everyone. Today I'm going to talk about how I chose to study anthropology Its a weird story. The truth... If I hadn't studied anthropology I would have liked to be a physicist or a philosopher. In any case, I would probably be studying philosophy today.  I met the Anthropology while im in the military service. At that time I had left the formal education due to family issues. On one ocasion, specifically for my birthday,  my squad sergeant gave me an anthropology book as a gift: "The savage mind" by the  anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. And this gift was what  helped me decide for anthropology.  I think that I made the right decision because I enjoyed what I studying So far my experience in the university has been positive in general.  Right now Im doing my professional practice, working as a ethnographer in a proyect on etnobotany, wich is the social use of vegetation. My task is to register plant species and what are their uses. Its v...
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When I ask me what country i would like to visit, France comes to mind. The reasons why I would like to visit it some day are many. First of all, part of my mother's family is from there and I would like to visit them sometime in life. This also gives me security that having something insured upon arrival, although not having anything would not be something that would stop me. Second, in France there is the best university of social sciences, EHESS (École des hautes études in social sciences) or school of higher studies in social sciences. It would be a dream to study there, although of course ... I would have to learn French first. In addition, the rural landscapes of France are beautiful. Most people visit the big cities: Paris, Lyon, etc. But rural life in France says it is pleasant. If I could live there I would like to settle in a rural area of France, maybe in the outsides of Nancy.
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Holidays?

I would clearly like to go on vacation. Who does not like to take a well-deserved rest? Even so it is very likely that I can't take a vacation because I am carrying out my professional practice process, and it will take me until mid or late February and by that date its already very difficult to go.  However, If I went on vacation I would like to go to southern of Chile or to Argetina with my girlfriend, because I'm from the northern of Chile, so it be like going to visit my parents or friends that a vacation. I don't say it's bad or wrong, but i think i could'nt rest there.
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Free post: Biosemiotics and Anthropology of Life

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Hi everyone, today I'm gonna talk about a recent point of view in Anthropology: the biosemiotics and the Anthropology of Life. The anthropology has been characterized by being the study of human relations: history, culture, artefacts, etc. Since the 70's, with the posestructuralism and the ontological twist, the anthropology focused more in the study of the social relations, maintaining that the social relations involve more than just humans. This was an important turn for anthropology because increased this possibility of observation: Now we could see social relations of humans with objects, or humans with animals, or objects with objects, etc. One of the aspects that arose from these changes was the anthropology of life and the biosemiotics. Some anthropologist argued that if all the relationshios that humans sustain are social, no matter what kinf of being we relate, anthropology should be a science about life. Biosemitcs is the idea that language, as an exchange of...
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Post Graduate Studie: Master in anthropology

Ever since I decided my area of interest in the anthropology (the ontological anthropology), I knew the fact that i had to do a posgraduate degree. The topics that the ontological anthropology address are real mental obfuscations (What it's mean the concept "persona" or thinking the division beetwen humans and no-humans (objets, animals, etc) or Is a dead body (corpse) a person or an object?)... so that it's improbable to the professors teach us this topics in depth in a undergraduate course. Therefore, I decided that I will do the Master in Anthropology when I can. I choose the "Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro" (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) because in this particular university teachs one of the "fathers" of ontological anthropology: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Also, studying in Brazil means the posibility of being able to do an amazon ethnografy, which would be great. Anyway, there'is a lot of unfinished business. First of...
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