My future (real more than ideal)

I expect that in my future I will work in something relative to the anthropology, specialy if I could do this work in a neighborhood that needs help to be self-managed and to be organized. I want to help that the people don’t need the government neither the prívate companies to have all they want to them goodness and I think that with my work I will can do that.

In five years I hope I will be living alone –without my parents- or with my partner in a department. I don’t care the place where I will could live, but I hope that it will be in Chile, not necessarily in Santiago. In my personal life I prefer don’t make plans, but I don’t really care if I am alone or accompanied. I don’t know if I want to be mother, but if I decided it surely I will don’t do it in five years.

And professionally, I hope that I will finish my career –with title and practice and everything- and maybe I will continue studing a postgrade, mean while I work.

It isn’t really an ideal future, it is rather the future that I really hope to have.

Leslie White

Leslie White is an American anthropologist known for his theories about cultural evolution and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. White born in 1900 in Colorado and studied at Louisiana State University in 1919. In 1921 he transferred to Columbia University, the same university as Franz Boas.

White's views were formulated against the Boasians (Historic Particularism), because he postulated that the world must be divided into cultural, biological, and physical levels (super structural, structural and infrastructural) of phenomenon; the cultural are super structural and it was composed of three levels: the technological, the social organizational, and the ideological. The White’s evolutionist approach is diachronic, but inductive. Is for that reason that I like him so much; he raises a scientific approach in Social Science, he raises a theory generalizing and explanations for the social phenomenon, not just descriptions.

He was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964). And he died in 1975 in California.

Anthropology =)

I study anthropology because I think that it would be a good tool to learn and use this knowledge in a useful way.

The anthropology is separate in three big areas: Fisical Anthropology, Social Anthropology and Arqueology. But I talk to you only about Social Anthropology because it is the one that more interest me.

The Social Anthropology study the cultural variability in the human societies –in a specific and general way- but it have a million subareas like rural, urban, gender (human race), development, apply, economic, etc. And it develop different theories to explain social and cultural phenomenon.

When I begin to study anthropology I wasn’t sure that it was the career I want. I had to think it a lot until I finaly decide to continue study this career. It is complicated to talk about the posible jobs I would have, because the variety in the study areas and aplications od the anthropology.

I hope I would work helping people to understand the social problems that affect to them and give to them the tools to resolve it.

Ah! and my favourite class this semester is "Anthropology III" =D

Bye, see you next week.

My favourite photography is a really big cloud.

Hello!!

I take this photography 3 years ago, in October I think, and I like it because you can see all the colours in a cloud. Some people say the clouds are white, but it prove this isn’t true. Also, it semes like a big cotton, soft and smooth.

In the moment I took this photography I used it to send a message.this cloud have a significance... a importance. I took it when the day begin to get dark in a place near to my house. The tree next to the cloud is a walnut tree and I like his figure. I like the sunset reflected in it.

All the photography have a essence a little dark, like it would be painted whit oil. The light in the cloud’s top vanish near to the house’s roof.

Well, I will be glad if you look my photography and agree whit me, but specialy if you enjoy it.

My favourite web site... >.<

The web site SciELO is the scientific electronic library online

In this site you could find a lot of books of many subjects and scientific disciplines, but the best is you could see it for free. the web sites are www.scielo.cl or www.scielo.org, it depends to the country, because the SciELO proyect is developed in many Latin America's countries. In Chile the SciELO proyect is a CONICYT initiative.

This site is in Spanish and Portuguese, and have very interesting articles, even some articles are write for our university's teachers. I found this site for this reason, a teacher gaves me the site for find an article write for her. This article is about Zoology in the south of the valleys Chalchaquíes.

I don't visit this site very often, but I like it because is a good way to accede to scientific magazines, articles, etc. and it's really good for make the works in the diferent subjects.

And then there is, now you could visit the site too.
Bye!

How I already say... I HATE tecnology!

OK... my favourite piece of tecnology is my mobile phone, because I need it to remember the things I have to do and because I also need it to get in touch with my family and friends.

I got it seven years ago, when I was in seventh grade because the new school was in Santago centro and my family needed a way to get in touch with me. My uncle gave it to me in my thirteen birthday, althought the mobile phone that I have now isn"t the same my aunt still pays it.

I use it every day and every time because I always need to find people or to meet with friends and I also use the alarm and the calendar to remember all the things I have to do.

I don"t really like it, neither enjoy using it, but it"s necesary to me... don"t you think that I don"t like anything, but I dislike this topic in particular.

Well, good bye again.
I hope the next week"s topic will be most friendly to me.

I hate blogs...

Hello
My name is Melinka and you are my classmates in the English III class. I study antropology in the second year.
I hope this blog permites me write things to you and read about yours likes and dislikes. Also this is a good form to learn vocabulary and a good way to express yourself.

Like the title of it says... I hate blogs and tecnology in general, then you could imagine that I don"t feel very happy doing that.

I say good bye and see you the next week.

Melinka Olivares.