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My english classes

Today I have decided to speak about my experience with the english class this year. I have to recognize that I'm not good for english, in fact, in the school my marks weren’t too good. The english class of my school and the english class of the university are very similar, but the difference are the blogs. In my school we never create a blog and write in it, actually, most of the times we worked completing guides and stuff like that. We didn’t used to write so much. However, fortunately University classes look up to develope the writing and speaking topic. I don't want to say that now I´m highly qualified for speak in english, in fact I should learn more of this language, but the blogs helped me to write a bit better. My lacking of english is fundamentally the grammar, that is, conjugate the times of the verbs. I think that write more things, and see movies in english, are better and effective ways that helped to learn this language, because in the same time in that you l...

My favorite subject

Today I'm gonna tell you about my favorite subject this terms. This semester I have a class about ethnography, called workshop ethnography. This class teaching how can we have to do an ethnography; here I learn to use different methods that can be useful to recollect a necessary information for I do an investigation and give us differents techniques and tools for know how are we doing in a difficult experience in the work, because is most probably that it happend, so we are work with humans that most of the time we don´t know and, we can't prevent they reactions. My favorite subject in this class it was  the last unit, because we have to do an ethnography and apply all of the contents that we are learned. In my case, my group and me did our ethnography about the hippie´s life in a little beach called Horcón. This landscape is very know, because in 60´s years took shelter to youngest people that were looking for peace, love and liberty. In our ethnography we can apply a lo...

Claude Levi-Strauss

In this post I'm gonna tell you about one of the important persons in anthropology that I admire, Claude Levi-Strauss. He was a French ethnologist and anthropologist, and have a big influence from Durkheim, Mauss and Boas. Levi-Strauss born in 1908 and in his long life done a big contributions for anthropology.  His works are made about the structuralism theory , triggering a change in the form to study and analyze the tribal societies. One of his works is “La penseé Savage”, that in my opinion is one of the most important, as well as "Tristes Tropiques", because shows to the academy a new perspective about "savages societies"; he thinking that “savages” have a complex structure of thinking, same like us, but organize it different; is organized through the sensitive. This is was a very important for the anthropology, because this was a influence to the change of the way to understand the “study subject” also called “the other”. For this reason I admire him, bec...

Past or future ?

If a had a choice, I´ll choose to go to the past because I´d like to see by myself all those things that History talks about. Most of the time is used to think the past in a huge sever way, at the point that we don't question it.  Also the past has been a really important tool for the groups of power on his motivations to elaborate a official story. If a could change something I would do a lot of things, but one of the things that i’d like to change would be the colonization of the Patagonia, because it was a horrible fact that destruct a piece of own history; I´d try to avoid the killing and extinction of the typical aboriginal cultures of this landscape. Maybe this way could help to appreciate all of this cultures and gives the importance that deserves. I´d like come back to the Maya´s empire and could see for my own eyes their lifestyle, how they constructed their monumental buildings and how they got helped by the stars for construct it. I stay in this period the time that ...