Wednesday, May 28, 2014

An anthropologist at the moon

Well, I don't know much about the current web pages that people normally visit, but last month my cousin sent me something that I found interesting. It is a blog which link is "http://unaantropologaenlaluna.blogspot.com.ar/". Its owner is a social and cultural anthropologist from Argentina named Naomí.
The blog has many short articles about different anthropological matters. Here you can find things about evolution, economy, religion, politics and many other subjects, all related to different cultures, included the urban one.
The truth is that I've visited it just a few times. But I've found interesting what I've read until now, because maybe she isn't neither Lévi-Strauss nor Malinowski, but i think that she does a good job showing the
variety of cultures and ways to think that's at the world, and she explains her researches in a way that everybody is able to understand what she's trying to show.
I think that we need people able to bring our career closer to the people, and that's why I would recommend it to you.


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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Books!

A book is always a good partner, or that's what I think at least... It sounds like a book worm, and maybe I am, cause I enjoy reading books during my free time and being in another world for a while. With reading, people can feel like another person, they can understand them and also their ways to think and behave.


I like reading literature, history and philosophy. If we're talking about literature, my favorite branch  is the magic realism of the "latin american boom", but I like also some french writers and poets, like Victor Hugo or Charles Baudelaire. One of my favorite book characters is "La Maga" from Rayuela, a novel written by Julio Cortázar. La Maga is a woman who has had a hard life, and although she thinks she's dumb and stupid (because the rest make her feel that), she teaches her "friends" much more about the life than she can imagine.
I haven't had much time to read what I want to read, but one of the books that I've recently read is "The Savage Detectives"  (written by Roberto Bolaño). I enjoyed it, but it took to me around three weeks to read because I didn't have much time. The story is about Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, two poets who have invented a new literary movement: The "Visceral Realists". They disappeared in México and nobody knows anything about their location.
I would recommend it to people who like poetry, politics and the latin american history, but if you're looking for a love story or something like that, this is not a good book for you.