Anthropology: The Myth

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Looking for an article about the importance of anthropology in today's world i found this short article about how this discipline is taken by the majority and a bit of the debate about if it is a science or not. The myth about the Anthropology and what is actually what anthropologists does.
Of course we're not Indiana Jones but that's what people always say when you tell them what are you studying. I bet if you ask all the anthropology students the feedbacks they get when they tell people their career they'll say things like: "oh, beautiful" ," you'll have a lot of fun finding bones" , "dinosaurs, right?", "oh so , are you moving to egypt?" , but the award goes to "anthropology... what's that?" . We need to change that because we hava so much to give to thsi world.
Is weird for me to say "we", considerating im just in the firts year of this career, but i think that this discipline is underated in comparation to other social sciences that you can hear everywhere everytime and we have the responsability of introduce this career and what we do to the daily world.
The debate about Anthropology being a science or not is infinite but even if people don't take it like a science perse they can't deny its relevance! We're humans living together , we are so many cultures, we are so many places, we are so many ways to see this one world and we have to know ourselves. We can't move foward - we can't even move, or we shouldn't- without knowing US, like humans, like cultures. If we don't try to see eachothers what would be the point?, we would be blind.
Away from the "fun" that everyone find on studying something like this - the myth- , the importance of anthropology, at leats, for me, is that as discipline it allows us to try to understand us in a better way, and gives us tolls and methods for that. The true is that we study about others but we are the others too. We are our own study objetc.
I hope i didn't miss the point but more than indiana jones, as the article says, we are -will be- available to make a change, to make a difference and help .

Wanderlust

(n.) The irresistible ,

uncurable desire 

to travel or wander.

Hi, I'm Javiera and i'm a studet of first year of Anthropology. This post, the firts post of the last semester of this year and is about  dreams, basically...When i was a child i loved to look at pictures of different places, cities and countries that were far away from where i was ( still far away from me ,honestly) , places with different colours and different people, different cultures...cultures with so many and diverse leguages and ways to live.  I used to imagine stories of me runing through the streets of London with an umbrella or drinking coffe like the ladies of the movies next to the Eiffel tower. I loved to imagine how could be living in an unfamiliar place, without familiar  faces around me.. isn't that i loved the idea of being far away from home and family but i thought it was an amazing plan to be somehwere else ... not here, not Chile.  Through the years i loved my "plan" more and more. Now i can't imagine my future without thinking of traveling, without thinking that i have to go away, and fly. I think people have wings and this world is just the sky . That's why i decided to study this career... it's amazing how much you can  learn about different cultures and places, and i MUST visit them all. All the palces. Believe me, the only thing i want to reach in life is be avalaible to travel , everywhere, everytime. I always think about how amazing it could be to wake up one day thinking " oh , i want to visit Italy" and go to Itlay that  same day. i get exited everytime i start to think about that.Ok, that's was me daydreaming, but they're not impossible dreams att all. I have a dream that i could make real soon . I want to go to France and study there with one of those interchange programs.I'm working so hard on that. ¿Why France? because the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) of París. That's why. 

ps: I love London, that why i chose that picture, my second big dream is to live there.