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Hello entities  I don't feel comfortable dicussing about this topic. First, because it's uncertain by nature, so I almost never stop to think about it; and second, because if I stopped to think about the future, it probably wouldn't be about this topic: future Job.  As an anthropologist, it is difficult for me to think of work other than research, except teaching. If I had to say which ones I would like to have, surely they would be those: university professor and researcher. Anyway, in the area of social sciences you cannot be a teacher without being a researcher. I think it's the best, because the topics that fascinate me are abstract  and conceptual thematic, such a what it means to be "persona", or "what is a body?" and that kinds of mental obfuscations.  Being passionate about ethnography, I don't see any other way to investigate if I ended up doing that, so I would work mostly in the field: in the end, anthropology is to think to...

This 2019 has come out very good movies like Joker, Marriage Story, The Irishman, etc. But without a doubt, the one who takes the award of the movie that impressed me this year is "Parasite".  Directed by  south korean "Bong Joon-ho", Parasite is a black comedy drama thrilller film (or so it's cataloged) that follows the members of a poor household scheming to become employees of a much wealtheir family by posing as unrelated, highly qualified persons. The films tells and demonstrates, in a very particular way, the abysmal inequality existing in South Korea, which is the foundation of the country's economic miracle, inviting the viewer to reflect on concepts suchs as dignity, etc. The film was nominated in 77th Golden Globe Award in 3 areas

Semester doing blogs has been an interesting experience. Not so much for what it taught me in English (if it's true that it serves to exercise grammar, syntax, vocalubario, etc.) but rather for the opportunity to know small fragments of the histories of my classmates. This doesn't mean that I haven't learned... on the contrary I think it helped me to remember some things that I saw in high school. It has been a more dynamic and different way of learning English. I think at the end of the course the reflection that arises is that which is embodied in the title of this post ... this methodology really teaches us English? I think so, but not as it's currently. Mister Sebastian should be able to review the blogs with some periodicity and not at the end of the course, to give us corrections and advice in the written part. On the other hand, I think that the course doesn't focus on the biggest weakness we all have in my opinion: speak and pronounce correctly.  Persona...

Hi everyone, today I'm gonna talk about a book I've been reading: How Forest Think? by Eduardo Kohn, a (north) American anthropologist.  In this book Kohn wonders what it means to be alive or what it means to think, proposing questions like Can forests think? or Do dogs dream? This questions challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human (and thus distinct from all other life forms). Based on fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. The classical anthropological tools or methods hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human: capacity of symbolize, language, etc. However, change ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) bre...

Hello everyone, this time I'm talk about the subject I've enjoyed most this semester. Is a subject that is realized in Philosofy in Campus Juan Gomez Millas. The name of the subject is "Readings on temporality in Husserl and Levinas" .  I like the subject for two reasons. The first is that I'm a passionate about philosofy (it was a one of my career options). And the second is that this particular philosofy, the phenomenology, is very closer to some of the principles of the anthropology. In the subject, we see issues such as the construction of the time/temporality, the difference beetwen "time lived" and "time percevied". All based in two great philosophers: Edmund Husserl and Emmanuel Levinas. Althought it's a difficult subject for someone who doesn't have previus knowlegde of philosofy, the professor is very kind and has an incredible facility to explain. If you've the opportunity to take courses, I recommened them because...

Hello class, today I have to talk a little about myself. So... I born in 1997 in Maria Elena, a village in the north of the country in the second region. When I was 5 years, my family moved to Antofagasta (Capital of region) for labor issues.  In Antofagasta I spent an important part of my life. I studied at the Liceo Industrial A16 "Eulogio Gordo Moneo" and obtained my technical degree in automotive mechanics.  Before entering the university, I gave my military service in the regiment of the region for a year: The third Armored Brigida "La Concepcion". When I left the service in 2016, I started studying anthropology at the University of Chile, where I am still studying and I hope to be able to graduate this year.  In fact I live in La Granja with my grandparents, I hope that soon I can move to another place when I start working and become independent. In Antofagasta i lived with my parents and with my sister, Constanza, who is ready to leave the sc...

Hello people, today I come back to talk to you about one of the anthropologist that I admire: Marilyn Strathern. She is a forgotten author in the discipline, for example, in the anthropology department of the University of Chile she is not mentioned. She is a social antropologist who was born in 1941 in Wales, UK. In the present she has 78 years old, and works as professor of anthropology at the University of Cambrigde.  Together with Roy Wagner, they are the ones who initiate ontological anthropology. This type of anthropology is based on the symmetry between humans and non-humans (animals, objects, environment, etc.) and seeks to study the many possible forms of existence. In particular, the Marilyn’s anthropology has been called retro-antropology, that is, a form of antropology in which, throught the study of other ways of living, the way of living itself is questioned. For example, the Marilyn’s examination of Melanesian ideas simultaneously exposes aspec...