Tuesday 19 May 2009

About Anthropology . . . my career

Before anthropology I enter to Bachillerato, that’s a kind of College, a kind because you have to take the Psu and enter like any regular career. We used to joke about it, Bachillerato it’s like a 5th of high school, you have 15 obligatory classes, like mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, history anthropology etc and 5 that you choose according to the area that you want to fallow. The bases classes are in almost every career. The meaning of Bachillerato it’s to know the different careers in the university so you have more time and experience to pick the career that you really want, and obviously you can join this career by the program of Bachillerato, so also you can choose Bachillerato to enter a career that you didn’t make it whit the score in the Psu.
I enter Bachillerato because I was confused, I didn’t know what career I want. In the beginning I liked almost everything, but in the way y realize that I like more the areas were the arts and the letters were included, like humanistic, social and artistic areas. Well, after a year I decide that I want Architecture or Anthropology. I always like more architecture, I think I have lots of faculties for that career but I always had in mind that anthropology some day was going to captivate me, and at the moment in some way did it. From the beginning I have some distance whit the anthropology, basically for the fact that I didn’t know too much about it, just the superficial things.
This it’s a social science, so it tries to do studies from a methodology and a theory, using several techniques. The focus of these studies are the human being, dividing anthropology in three areas: Physic Anthropology, that’s studies the more biological part of the human being, centering the studies in the material being and his evolution it’s the more scientific area. The second area it’s the Archeology that focus his studies in the past cultures by the material rest that this cultures left. And at last Social anthropology that studies the social and cultural phenomenons. This are very basic, traditional and superficial definitions of the different aspect of the anthropology. Because it’s a career that like almost everyone evolves, change in its foundation and has several point of view of itself, deferent’s theories. There are discussion about itself that are happening in this moment . . . sometimes is in a lethargy and sometimes it’s in a furious evolution . . . that obviously in some way depends in the discussion and evolution of it of the other social science, flow of thought, disciplines etc. To resume this is a very wide Career that uses elements from a lot of others careers and disciplines, because of its focus of studies, the culture, the human being.

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