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.

Marc Augé

Marc Augé ( 1935)  is French anthropologist who mainly works in the area of ethnology.
His work get's closer to the concept of "over-modernity" made up of reflections about individual the individual identity of people related to the quotidian places and the presence of technology  in our lifes.
He has been professor of ethnology and anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) of París and then director of the same institution , also has been director of many investigation programs at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

I like his work because he talks about the "non-places" that are the transitional places where we make part of our lives without staying. i think the concept is an amazing way to get close to an era made up of "non-relations"; Also , is actually this book, called "The Non-Places" one of the reason why i'm in this career today. I read it the past year in one of those critical phases of "what am i going to do with my life?"; my Language professor gave it to me and told me "hey, read this! i made my thesis about this book" and i was truly amazed about Augé's work. I realized that that was what i wanted to study because i was interested about  the  ways how people live in the today's world and the culture going around.
He has many other  books  and articles but i haven't finished reading them yet , i'd love to.

Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be

I think Reading is one of my favourites things to do and i  read a lot because it makes me happy.   It's amazing how you can imagine all the stories, all the universes, all the moments , all the characters... like if you were there , with them. You can escape from the world, into infinities stories that're way more interesting than yours...Is like taking a journey, an infinite journey.        I always liked to read. When i was a child my mom used to read a lot with me,  books were always important in my house so i grew up with books and conversations about them around me. I think that's why i like to read...books are part of me since i was a little girl.                   To be honest i don't really know how many book I've read in my life, if i tell a number i'd be lying ; i just can say that some of them changed my life and the way i see the world.                                                              I love to read a lot of stuff but i prefer fiction.I love to imagine things that could never happen in the real world, i love to escape from reality.              Fantasy , Science Fiction, Horror, Mistery, and that kind of literature is my favourite... but i also like Poetry, and that's in the top of the things i like to read.                     QOUTH THE RAVEN.. NEVER MORE.                                                            My favourite author is Edgar ALLan Poe,I think he's sublime.I love how the words in his books can make you feel you are right there, in that time, having those feeling, living the story through your skin. IS Wonderful.. and i can't choose a book, just "one book" so i'll say my favourite book is the collection of short tales by Edgar Allan Poe translated by Julio Cortázar - i have a picture of one of the books, they're 2, with a drawing i made of the reaven , so i'll add it here),my favourites tale are "Eleonora" and "The Reaven" but believe, i can't choose a favourite even when there're some that i like more than others. 

Anyways... my favourite character isn't created by Poe, is actually from a book called "El túnel" by Ernesto Sábato. There's something in his mind.. something i cant relate to myself in some way ... he has the mistery.. the essence of those rany days at midnight, with art in the skin and the  mess in the thoughts;i don't know, i like the mess and  messy and dark atmospheres. 

The last book i read is in a way very different from the books i usually  read, (i'm not counting the poetry books because as the last books i read because i read the poems one by one , not like books) so.. the last book i read is a best seller - i don't.. like best sellers but this one is cool hahha- is called "The fault in our starts" by John Green. It's Sad. I Hate John. He KILLED THE GUY WITHOUT MERCY . I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT.NO. I'M NOT RECOVERED OF HIS DEAD YET. ( i won't lie, i cried a lot with this book,no regrets)IT TOOK ME 2 HOURS OF TOTAL SUFFERING TO READ IT.                                             

If you want a teen love story.. but a super sad story without a happy ending at all i recommend you this book... i think is a bit "girly" but is okay, we all need hose guilty pleasures sometimes.(they're making the movie...)                                                                                                                                                                                    PS: I THINK I HAVE A FAVOURITE BOOK . IS THE ONE OF THE ONES. THE MAIN ONE.

                                                                                                                        Is a master piece...

London Days

                                                                            ...A'Cuppa tea?

I know im late! but i want to share this with you:

First of all , i'm so sorry i wasn't there this week, i'm very sick actually and i was in bed almost all the past week! ( what a bad thing hu?)  i'm a photolog freak, i love to take a lot of pictures of everything ! So i want to share my favourite picture with you:




i took this picture this last winter, in my house (2013) ... it was raining so loud! suddenly the rain paused... when i looked through the window ( i was in the pc doing a homework) i saw this amazing rainbow! i haven't seen something like this in my life before! a rainbow from the beggining 'til the end ! it was magic! i thought my camera wasn't good enough to take a good picture but i was wrong! look at it...just beautiful.
Things that doesn't happen in Santiago... wow now i realize how much i 'll miss the winter in my house, how much i'll miss being commfy in home while is raining , with my mom making me breakfast and watching cartoons with my little brother... im getting emotional, im sorry hahahah

ps: i hate being sick.

ANI ANI ANIMAL LOVER

 Im going to show you why i am an animal lover! after this set of images you will probably die of cutness. Look at this:
   


NOW I DARE YOU TO TELL ME THOSE AREN'T THE MOST CUTE THINGS WALKING ON THIS PLANET!
I think i'm an animal lover, i would love to have a lot of animals and take care of them all the time!
I don't have any pets now because ,basically, i don't have the space enough to have them; but when i was a child i had a lot of dogs and i loved them with all my heart! Specially one...
Her name was Laika, ( like the Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space)
she was a gift from my mom and my aunt when i was 3 or 4 years old. She was the best pet ever , i was so little and i loved to run  behind her in the backyard of our house.
Animals are amazing and i can't stand that they're used like instruments in medical researches, it's unbelievable and cruel. I'm not a  vegan , nore vegetarian and i know this might be a little bit contradictory but i think there're other ways to know if a product is safe or not for us - human beings- without using them, ignoring the fact they're creatures that  feel the pain just like us . Of course science need to "move one" and "work for us" because " we rule this planet" but no. We don't, we are just another animal here, we have to live in peace and try to find friendly ways to make "our science". They're not our slaves.
The "Zoo's" are another thing i'm not agree with. Because a lot of them are tiny places where the animals are so stressed! they can't even run around! its awful. If the Zoo has the conditions enough to keep the animals safe and comfortable is... ok? i don't know. I really don't like Zoo's but i think that now, in the times we're  living through , sometimes ... the animals are more safe in Zoo's - just in some of them- ( i have to point this out because there're a lot of zoo's with amazing conditions , with people  very worried of taking care of the animals and saved them of the worst predatory... the humans).
for example: people who buy and furry coats. They must be in jail forever!

About dogs:
I think dogs are responsibility of their owners. Dogs aren't "bad" by nature. Is the men and will always be the men the problem here. If you have a dog and you take care of it properly  you wouldn't have problems. The world wouldn't have the "dogs problem" . How many time has do wee need to realize that we are the problem here? . Dogs shouldn't be banned or muzzled but let's be honest.. we can't do that now. We could if we change our minds, if we change how we acts and if we stop being the horrible persons we are. Who would think about leave a friend alone in the street, by his own, without home , without food, without love? Would you? Would you leave a friend? I think you wouldn't, so why abandon your dog friend?.

My Animal Spirit:
I think about this a lot... if i was an animal which one would i be? , i think  i would be a QUOKKA. BECAUSE -this need a photo-


LOOK AT THIS BUDDY! IS THE HAPPIEST ANIMAL EVER!