Post 5: About my future job

What I have thought more this year, because I am in my last year of career as a student, was to think about how would it be my future job? Where would it be? And so many questions about ff I would work like Social Anthropologist here in Chile, or if I would have to travel to another country to work… there are so many things unknown about the job and the future, that to think again, makes me feel very afraid… but if I would can to tell you some aspects that I want to have in my future job and 

to have the possibilities of living would be this:

To travel around the world...

I imagine my future job like a continuous travel to different cultures around the world; I wish for the possibilities to learn different languages, cultures, and religion and history context. Also, a relevant aspect are the possibilities to insert in the political problems of each country, and what matters most to me, is that my work serves to contribute to the society in which I work.

A master that I want to study...

For my future job, I have been thinking about to study a master program for the continuity of my studies of my major, the specifically Interuniversity Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at University Virgili i Rovira.

                                   

Post 4: Medical Antropology

First, If I have to be honest, Anthropology is a really strange career. Actually, I study this career.

I am in my fourth year, and now I think that this career is the most strange, different, particularly of all disciplines of the social sciences but, why do I think this? Well… it’s a long way, and in this blog post, I can’t talk about all the way that I had to go during these four years, nevertheless I can tell you through this blog, as is the sub-discipline and in which I am interested in studying.

Anthropology is a discipline that is interested in studying the human being in a holistic way. It’s object of study is the culture and forms of social organization that has developed the human being through its history. This discipline has different areas of study, in my personal case the area of the Medical Anthropology is the theoretical line that interests me to continue investigating, but… ¿What does this discipline study?

The health, the sufferings, and the diversity of diseases are different in each culture. Each society socially constructed and means these elements within their cultural context, the study of medical anthropology, is to approach these ways of conceptualizing them, and the ways in which health is part of the cultural context of each society.

Today the biomedical system is the hegemonic model that predominates in the health in the western society. The ethnological studies to indigenous cultures and diverse cultures have contributed to consider different ways in which health is conceived in societies, establishing a more critical framework in the ways in which plans and programs are implemented in health and well-being of the human being

Post 3: My favourite Movie - Tricky question

Pinpoint my favourite movie is a really difficult task for me. I don't really know if it’s at all possible. Everyone changes, and have different tastes and experiences that shape what we like. I am sure is difficult to everyone to make a choice, but I would be dishonest if I picked one just to write this blog. So, I will explain what kind of movies I like, and name out a few of them. Maybe some of you like them too, and even if I we can't choose one, maybe we end up having similar motives? I don't know, but something has to be similar, be it in the movies we like, or between them.

I am really tempted by movies of suspense, history, dramas, and psychological thrillers, and my favourite movies tend to fall into those categories. If I had to list some of them, I would start with "Taxi Driver" and "The Godfather". But that is because I have seen them a long time ago, and have had time to think and talk about them. I also like a lot "Dead Poets Society", "Pulp Fiction", "The Clockwork Orange", "Donnie Darko", "Memento", and "Whiplash". Some of them seem a little far-fetched, and even I am not really sure why they interest me so much, but there are at least some gut feelings.

Something about all of them is that they are based in human experience, and not always “happy”. They tend to portrait human relationships in not only contingent but extreme circumstances. How and why do we act as we do? Is it always like that?. Why do we feel as we do, and the context presented has to resonate with what is important to me. Not only as an abstract idea, but also as historical subjects -that is why I like them- and the meaning we carry. Emotion and compromise in our passions and skills, as in "Whiplash", but at the same time what we learn and why we do -as in education and schools-, and how that either reproduces our decadent world, or sparks the flames of the future.

Post 2: The best concert I have ever gone - Tour “El Gusto es Nuestro”

The best concert I have ever experienced is actually fairly recent. I could say that it was the last one I went to, the month before, in September. It was the tour called “El gusto es Nuestro”. A series of concerts through countries of Western Europe and Latin America this year, performed by four Spanish composers: Joan Manuel Serrat; Ana Belen; Victor Manuel; and Miguel Ríos. This was a very significant concert to me. Part of it is because of this tour took place also 20 years before, and my father and uncles assisted at that time the performance in the national stadium. I and my siblings grew up listening and singing their songs, and this year 2017, the artists came back to tour in commemoration of these 20 years, and, for us, everything that had happened in between.

It was an specially emotive concert. An spectacle with high sound quality, and a good stage. Through the three hours that the show lasted, they wander through songs of their personal repertoire; from the old concert; and from songs of two Chilean artists: Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara. As I have already said, it was a concert of very deep feelings. A experience to revisit and live again one and a thousand times. A concert that more than just evoke memories in the assistants, made feelings come out of every word, and music out of our collective experiences, like we came back in time to live what it was 20 years before: to become and re-encounter with our past and all the time that had passed -and experienced.