Why antropologhy?

I've never had a whole life vocation about antropologhy, actually i didn't knew what it was about untill i were currently in last highschool years. Either influenced by friends or reading stuffs, Antrpologhy suddenly appeared to me as an amalgam of subjects which were on my concern since i was a kid: the question about "the past", the missing link (this remits on human evolution to those unfound human specimens which were in the middle of two known species and that could give information about how the first one turned to the second), about the mystical recondit origin of many cultures in the world, among others stuff. So, even when i never really propused to myself the posibility to become this discipline the history of my life, it was always on my mind.

When i was a kid i were always interested in animal stuff, but not in a medical or political way; i used to like it just because, mere interest. So i never wanted to become a veterinarian, not at all. I also enjoyed the drawing from early age, i used to draw lions, bears, spidermans and faces. However, i never did improve my drawing aptitudes, so i've always been an amateur at that.

Well, in relation to my other options before enter to my carreer, certainly never was my first option. On school i got really interested in psychology and the social sciences sphere, but also i liked the idea of being an history teacher, maybe because i admire my school teachers by helping me to figure out my vocation path in a quite big way.

Anyway, i finally got into antropologhy because my score in Psu exam weren't to good to enter in the university i wanted, and there i realized that i was not willing to try again next year, i didn't like it so much. So with psycologhy discarded i looked up to my actual carreer, and i felt curious to try it.

Today i'm in second year and i've learned a lot of things, as well as into the carrer as outside it. I think that i haved changed a lot in the last 2 years, and maybe this career has influed.

My wishes to future as a professional is, in a huge way, to become a commited social scientist with lot of social compromise, and to preserve my actual convictions about things that i consider vitals to work on society, like ethnic rights, resistance to factic power and to the patriarchy's claws, among others... I hope so.

Autobiography

I was born in Santiago on Auguut 18th in 1997 - so today is my 20th birthday- and i've lived here during my whole life with my parents and my older brother, who has 6 years more than me. I never went to the kindergarden because i disliked it, i preffered to stay in home doing other stuff. When i was a kid i liked to draw and to learn about animals a lot, i learned to read in home by playing PC games and watching movies; i think that it was so more interesting that doing it at kindergarden or school with all of those gramatical rules stuff and teachers around you all day. The best way to learn something is doing it the way you like the most.

Well, later i went to school. I did Pre-School year and the first three grades in a school near to my house. But, suddenly things changed in my family when my grandfather passed away. By economical issues me and my brother had to moved to another school. In my case, i moved to a public school, when i knew big part of my actual friends. This school called "Colegio Providencia" and i was there from 4th grade to 8th grade. After that i reached to my highschool studies, in a public school called Liceo Lastarria. There i learned such a important things, not just refered to the obligatorial subject, but things that i use everyday; there i formed my convictions, and part of my identity, and dispite of a couple of things that i don't share with the school's vision, i save great acknowledge from there, but well, it's happens everywhere at anytime.

4th grade was such an important year, because it was the last year that i was being along with my partners, who have become really good partners in life and i appreciate them so much. But also, 4th grade was important because it was a decisive year, the PSU was coming and i haved to prepare myself at the time that i wasn't sure enough about what do with my life, i mean, about what to study next.

I always felt attracted by the social sciences, at least since 2th or 3th grade of highschool. In the begining i was interested in Psycologhy by influence of some teachers and some older friends, beside some stuff i could read parallel to school. But actually, i was never really sure about it untill the day of the PSU exam results. When i looked it i thought in my posibillities, wich in that moment were: Psycologhy, History and Antropologhy. My score were not to good to enter directly to Psycologhy, so i decided to enter  Antropologhy to see, meanwhile i looked for an inner exchange, if this carrer was mine stuff.

Once there, i realized that Antropologhy contained a lot of subjects that i liked since i was a kid, and i i felt really passionate with the carrer since then. Today i'm very happy to have entered to the carrer instead of psycologhy or History, i kinda found part of my essence here. Here i met real good people and my actual girlfriend partner, people who have been along with me all the time, learning real important things about cultures, sites, bones, and Levi-Strauss.

Etnic Items

In this picture, we can see a curious celebration: The Aztec New Year. This event it's realized on Seattle, Washington, and, as i can see, with the purpose of commemorate an etnic tradition in a country that represents, in my opinion, conquer, imperialism and expansion. After centuries of occidental colonialism and consolidated domination, the United States tries to do an assertion about how they really care about the integrity and wholeness of an erradicated culture. However, this celebration hides something elses because, in fact, the people that participate in this event are aztec descendants, and they does it to the  eavs of this northern country. This reveals a really known fact: Cultural Sincretism. In antropology, we concibe this  etnic individuals as "the others", wich history is subordinated to our history --occidentally history, i mean. Actually, they only have this place , this oportunity to "celebrate themselves" because we provide it. Ultimately, they're just result to be a residue of our own culture; they only exist in the 'hegemonic imaginarium' because we allowed it. In conclusion, I rather to see this phenomenum "between lines", and i make a couple of questions to the readers: Is this really a genuine way to honorate an ancestral culture, into a city? Are this iniciative an efective form of redeem the damage that occident has done over and over through the time to this etni groups? When we look as this picture, we really think about the aztec integrity or we're just fascinating our minds with at etnic fetish? The subject is open...