Challenges to face

Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk about the challenges that my discipline –anthropology- is currently facing now. In the first place, I want to clarify that I don’t have many knowledge about anthropology, so I’m going to do my best, and I hope that you enjoy my post!

However, I’m going to refeir about the challenges of anthropology from differents points of view, like technology, social matters and education.
If we are going to talk about anthropology, we have to consider the metodologhy of it, because it is very important to make a good investigation. In metodologhy, the general intruments to use are etnography and stadistics (if you made an inquiry or focus group, for example). With etnography I think the intruments are good, because you need a notebook (or netbook) to write, and of course, theoric issues -which I’m going to refer later. Concerning stadistics and the relationated items of it, I think the intruments that you need to investigate are good, but the problem is that many anthropologists doesn’t consider stadistic in their investigations and guides themselves by etnography, but, how can you be sure that you have reach the knowledge with etnography? In this respect I think Anthropology needs to be more serious in their investigations and also needs to stablish some rigorously in the scientific community, and I think that technology may to contribute to that challenge, improving the instrument that already has.
Evidently, the metodologhy it’s something central in anthropology, and in my view it’s a central matter of the discipline. According to that and summing up, it’s dificult to have good results in social matters, because I don’t know which is the reference to consider an investigation successful. But not everything it’s bad. Some investigation has good results and serve to social matters; resolve public problems giving the topics of their studies.
Finally, refering to education, I wan’t to aclarate that it’s very necesary to have more experiences out of class and being in profesional studies (helping in it), and not only reading about theory and important figures. There exists a lot of visions in anthropology and the hardest work it’s to define with which one you feel more involved, and the best way to resolve that problem, it’s “being” an anthropology and don’t “studing” the antropologist.

To sum up, anthropology has a lot of challenges, and I think that his short life in academic history explains the reason of the many vision that anthropology has. Having more rigours will be better to the develop of our discipline, so everyone has to contributed to it.