Me future

When people ask me about my career, immediately they ask to me “and what are you going to do in you future?” so I use to say “well… a lot of things” and I start to number a few things that a would like to do but I rally don’t know if I can because the physical anthropology field is some indefinite. If somebody ask me how is going to be my life in 5 years, is difficult to answer because I always thought that I will be making a magister or some degree in other country, but maybe I will be married and it is not easy to travel for a long time with another person. Another possibility is that I will be working non stop and I’m going to forget the idea of keep studding. I even don’t know if I will can to obtain a grant. But now I don`t know if I ra want to study to have a good work and no money problems. But I not interesting in being renowlly want to keep studding, I wont to keep stress, maybe it would be better for me study latter. I suchned and prestige, I want a simple life, without stress and frustration.

The best in my career

If somebody asks to me about my career I would not stop to talk about it, excepting for one think: I have no idea about how are principal representatives of my discipline. Apparently Physical Anthropologist doesn’t have a Totem structure, like Psychology and Social Anthropology, maybe because his taxpayers come from different areas of investigation like Medicine, Biology and Archaeology. In the other hand, Physical Anthropology don’t have the same root in each country, in the case of Chile, we follow the Anglo-Saxon tradition were PA is a trend of Anthropology –in general-, but in Europe PA is a trend of Biology and isolated to social Anthropology, for example. Nevertheless we can see some classic authors like William Bass –author of “human osteology”-, Douglas H. Ubelaker and Jane Ellen Buikstra how performed the principal bioarcheological material.

Physical Anthropology

Maybe Physical anthropology is one of the strangest careers, but is closer to the people that we expect. This is one of the branches of the Anthropology, and it is not easy to define it. But I can say that Anthropology is the discipline that studies the human being from the cultural aspect. It is made up of social Anthropology; Archaeology; Physical Anthropology and Linguistics, the difference lays in the way the problem is approached. Physical Anthropology discipline studies culture too, but from the human being biology point of view. It means that PA studies the culture stamp in the human body –or its remainders-, at individual level or population level. From this definition, we have a lot of fields like Evolution, Forensic, Bioarchaeology and Population Genetics. Now as we understand what PA does, we can know its utility. First, it’s a way to obtain knowledge about our specie, but beyond the academy the Physical Anthropology can have a social purpose, in Health Politics for example or in Human Rights, in cases of violence or identification of corpses.

I have the face from the photo

This photo has a good history. I downloaded from internet because it is from Blixa Bargeld, an important Germany musician. I like the photo because he looks alienated from the world like the meaning of his music. I had this photo in my msn to say “I`m alienated” today or at this time, then my partners from the university started to recognize the photo and they use it to tell me “each day you look more similar to the photo”. This isunderstood because I was so tired with my classes, especially anatomy. Finally when I felt so tired, stressed and ugly I said I`ve the same face from the photo, and everybody could understand me and feel like the photo too. In the end of the academic year my partners requested me to put the photo in the mail from the class, because everybody felt indentified with the photo.

My last vacation

The last year I had a wonderful vacations, first I went to San Pedro de Atacama to make something like a practise in the Padre Le Paige museum with Pamela, with my partner. We was twenty days working there with the osteological material at the collection and helping at two partners from 4 grade. It was very fan and interesting for my carrier, including we made friends. When I back I past one week in Santiago with my boyfriend and then a friend invite us to the Elqui Valley. We had no enough money so we travel in hic-shaking, it was to easy went to the valley and my boyfriend wanted to travel more so we keep to the north. People were so nice, cars and trucks took us in the road to our destiny. We past for Bahía Inglesa and we meet with my boyfriend brothers who were travelling to. Then we went to Pan de Azúcar national park and finally we arrived to San Pedro again. In this second time I could tour and know pleases that I couldn’t visit in my first time. Obviously in the we return in bus, we were so tired.