An expert in my field

The expert in anthropology that i would like to write about is Max Gluckman, a South-African anthropologist. One of his contributions were introduced the importance of conflict in social situations and social structures, he was one of the first working this topic so he became a exponent in this area. The other contribution, in my opinion, is that in his works, he made explicit his history, his culture, his color, because he worked with the conflict between black and white people in Africa, so he was always aware of this aspects and he also write this so when we read, we understand why he think that way. Today, i think that the most important is the second contribution, but i don't think that he is consider for that. I found out about him in a subject named Anthropology IV, where we had to read one of his text about "zululand" as he wrote. In this text, he explain how this conflict where, in first, because of the colors and the different logic they had, but later was about interest. Particularly in Zulú, people relations where moved and based in their interest, but this relations where very fragile because there were a lot of changes.



 

Rural Anthropology

This semester i have a subject named rural anthropology and it sounds really interesting so i was very excited. The first classes were nice and the teacher i awesome, but then, the classes were about the "hacienda", a very interesting but slow topic so finally it became boring. The first test was exhausting because it last almost 4 hours, it was about the "hacienda" and mostly analysis of authors and situations. After this test, i wasn't as excited as the beginning, but i went to the class anyway and now the topic has change, now the teacher was talking about agrarian reform in Chile, since 1962 with Alessandri and how this reform was almost nothing because there was no change, but then, the reform that came with Frei was so big, in 1966, because this reform was about the territories and the unionism. Now we can criticize the logic underneath this reform, but if we evaluated in the moment, was a really big (and for a lot of people, nice) change in the way of living and working. After this, the changes that came with Allende were so much better because he introduced in this reform the idea of socialist State but it went to black with the coup d'etat. Now i already went to the field to interview some of this peasants that lived the reform and it is awesome how much you can find out just listen to them. So, i'm loving rural anthropology again.

Seagull

I choose this picture because it remind me a nice travel, nice day, nice moment.
It is one of the pictures i took that i really love because of many reasons. First, i love birds, i know that seagulls are kind of annoying birds but i think they are beautiful, and have awesome plumage. Another reason is  the movement that the photo shows, even when it is just a photo.
I took this picture in a christmas travel i made with my familiy and my wife's brother family to Horcón. It was a grey day (the ones i love) in the morning and i ask my brother to come with me to see the seagulls. As i said before, i like this photo because is about a bird flying, because of the movement of its wings when it was just starting flying, the colors, because i was the one who took it and because it was a nice moment.