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.