Assignment 5: My career

I don't have a specific reason to study anthropology. Last year when I had to decide what I want, I look for all humanist and social careers, because I like all that includes that disciplines.
I looked deeply the subjects, and anthropology conformed more with me.
So, I'm studying Anthropology because it's the career for me. Touch themes that I'm interested of, and it's a career where you learn a lot.

The professionals of my careers contribute to the society in many ways, but it depends of the specializacion that you choose.
Being a social anthropologist, contribuited to know more of different societies, but specialy, about their culture. That helps to understand their behaviors in front of different situations and with that, they can contribute to the best of our society, and also to themselves.
Being a physical anthropologist, contribuited in areas like criminalistic, and also in studies concernign to bioethics.
Being a archaeologist, helps to know about past cultures by their instruments.

The tools that you need, are very relationated to know about differents trends in the area. There are a lot, who gave a different intepretations to the work. We have to know about the scientific method, to watch other realities with consciencie and interact with people that we are investigating (or in the case of archaeologist, with the objects).

My favourite subject is philosophy, because is one that I love and I can't have it all the time in my career, because it's not very relationated with anthropology, like other subjects.
I like it very much because you issues yourself about different and abnormal themes that you don't think all the time.

Assignment 4: A photograph that I like ("Addis Ababa Umbrellas")

Unfortunately, I don't have the information for who has been taken this photo, but it's published in "The Enigma of Beauty", January 2000, National Geographic Magazine, but has been taken on 1999

In the photo, we can see ornate umbrellas in a dreary day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The situation is that there are a lot of people outside a church.

I know this photo since I had 12 years old because I used to search photos in Internet, because there are a lot of good ones.
Well, I like very much this photo because it has a lot of colours, and the cloth are beautiful. Other thing that surprises me, is that yo can't see this in Chile: ornate umbrellas. On winter we almost see black umbrellas and nothing else, and that gaves to the days more sadness. If we had colored umbrellas, like kids, the winter days will be more happier.

Assignment 3: Career-related website

Unfortunately I don't know a website with those features, but I know one that published a lot of articles and "e-books". It's "Memoria Chilena".

I found the site a day when I was visiting "dibam" (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) website, and there was a link. I got in and I considered a very interesting website, so I decided to send an e-mail and suscribe to the monthly messages, that report on the updates of the files of the website.
So I received many e-mails from "Memoria Chilena" about that, and also about cultural activities in different parts of Santiago.

I don't visit the website regularly... I visit it when I receive monthly e-mails, and if there is something interesting, I read it. If it isn't, don't.

I like it very much because it deals with many issues, like art, cinema, anthropology, history, etc. Also, because there you see below and can found another interesting websites which give you information about great activities in Museums or similar places.

Assignment 2: "My favourite piece of technologhy"

My favourite piece of techonology is the radio.

I got a radioset when I was about 7 years old. My parents gave it to me on Christmas and it has a microphone. I was very happy, because since it had a microphone, while I was listening to music, I was singing at the same time.
For that time, it was very modern, but if now I think about it, it isn't.

Now I don't have my own radio, but in my house there is one in the kitchen and it's always on. I listen to interesting news and music on radio "Horizonte", and sometimes on radio "Uno". It depends of the hour of the day.

I always listen to the radio in the morning, during breakfast. I like it because it is a moment where I listen good music and I relax before going to classes.

I like it very much because it is an old piece of technologhy and is still alive. It's a different way to get involved in the national and international current affairs, because you can imagine the events althought you aren't seeing them in a photograph or on the T.V.... and the most important thing is that you can listen to music at any time... it's like a permanent companion.

If the radio dissapeared, I think it would be awful, because in many jobs working people listen to the radio in order not to feel lonely, and without it, they would be feeling like that.
I think it would be bad too, because it would be more difficult to expand the music in the cultures, and that means that music would slowly die...