Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Margaret Mead


Margaret Mead was an anthropologist, who was born in 1901 and died in 1978. She was a student of Francis Boaz who was the representative of a way of thinking called “Historical Particularism”. She was very influenced by his ideas, but when she made a travel to made an etnography, she started to change. She wanted to investigated the young people because in occidental culture all the people wanted to explain why the adolescents were rebels in that period. Margaret Mead traveled to Papua New Guinea,exactly to Samoa, to studied the culture there, the samoans. They were a culture that have not been studied in depth. She wanted to see if the young people there passed a difficult adolescence or not. She wanted to know if this hard moment were result of the same adolescence or for the influence of the civilization. She conclude that the adolescence in Samoa was soft and whitout concerns; they lived the adolescence in freedom. After this she became a recognized person, specially for the young people, she was a symbol of freedom.
I like Margaret Mead because she broke whit the stereotypes that the society put on us. She started to open the “antropology world” to the people than didn’t know it. Also she was very brave because she went to a place were she didn’t know anyone, and the samoans didn’t know her too. She is an example of love of knowledge.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

My night whit the earthquake.

That night I went to a friend`s flat with my boyfriend. We were having a great time, just talking of diferent things. One of theme was about a myth about the production of free energy from USA to produce the earthquake in Haiti and suddenly the lights went out and the building started to shaking. In that momento I think that I was going to die because the building started to creak and I believe that it was going to fall over us. My boyfriend calm me and then we go down to the fisrt floor where the people was very scared. Then I tried to call my family but it was impossible, the line was dead. After that we wait out of the flat until the sun rises and we sleep one hour in the car. Then we return to our homes and the most impressive was the people on the street waiting for the bus to get to their jobs; even in a national catastrophe.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

first class on blog

Hi blogger friends!
I am Maite, student of Anthropology in the University of Chile. I am 19 years old and I live in La Florida. I want to study Social Anthropology because I like to relation whit the people, specialy the people that anyonecares about. Now that I am in my second year I want to read all the books that exists in the Earth, because that is my dream since I was a little girl. Maybe I can try it, don`t you think?