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 very entertaining but its also a lot of work... Sometimes I'd to walk more than 10 km to find the specific species 


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