Evaluation of my Blogging Experience

My experience writing blogs was fun but also a little bit stressing because it is indeed interesting and nice to write diverse stories about oneself on the internet but on the other hand it is complex and sometimes hard to express some ideas in a different language. Even though, writing blog posts has taught me the language on a more dynamic and different way, because it has been easier and amusing. Somehow, learning to write this way, exposing our own ideas and stories about diverse aspects of everyday life is far easier than making an essay or being too serious as in the normal subjects we are coursing, because it is a lot lighter task.

Nevertheless, I would like that we could realize more activities and posts about our careers specifically because we can express our ideas more freely and it helps us to develop our English concerning the activities we will realize in the future. It will also allow us to comment the posts with our classmates in a better way, since we’ll have more things in common.

Also, I would like to add that the themes of the post relate a bit more with the personal interests of the students, so they get more attractive and generate a better and more diverse discussion, so it won’t be necessary that everyone writes about the same topic or to focus in the same aspects of life, giving us the possibility to choose some topic we would like to write about.

Favorite subject: Etnography and Archive

This semester, the subject that caught my attention the most, was “Etnography and Archive”. The content itself was most theoretical but due to the final assignment and the intrinsic character of the ethnographic work, we had to do several tasks out of the classroom. Mainly, this subject was about how we had to do the observation and study of a community, this means how to interact and participate with them, so this way we can learn about their internal relationships and dynamics.  This work is also mixed with anthropological theories which allows us to generate new knowledge and explanations through the analysis of our observations.

I liked the subject because we choose to observe a chilean wrestling community, that ended up being super fun and interesting, and gave us the opportunity to know more of how wrestling was perceived and how it has developed in our country, since we didn’t knew much about it at the beginning, because it is poorly known in our country in general. Even though, they were open and welcoming, and their show was amazing, so the work was satisfying and positive to me.

Franz Boas

I really admire Franz Boas. He was a german/jew anthropologist that was born on July 9, 1858 and died on december 21, 1942. He developed his career at the United States, and standed out because of his new anthropologic theory, called "Historical Particularism”. This theory was against racism and contradicted evolutionism, the prevailing paradigm of that time, which stated a lineal way to see human diversity. Besides this theory developed the concept of “cultural relativism” which explained that every culture and folk had their own and particular history. This means that a group was not always molded after the influence of another and greater culture or human group, nor had to develop in certain stages as tribe, chiefdom, state, empire, etcetera. A great portion of his work was the study of the Inuit of North America, who also helped him to develop his theory. I like him because of the implications of his ideas, since they started a positive and revolutionary theoretical reflection towards the mankind and society conformation itself.