Sebastian Acuña

  Today I was thinking about changing my study programme.  I am currently studying anthropology at the University of Chile. This programme has five curricular subjects and two elective subjects. That means that I have to study 7 different subjects in one week. Those are English, writing and reading in social studies, contemporary problems in anthropology: globalization, fundamental problems in anthropology three, archive and ethnography, complex societies and statistics. i wouldn't change it because It´s very reasonable to have these types of subjects at this level The workload is diverse within different subjects, there is a lot of text that we have to read and often we run out of time. The subjects that are more dense in this semester are statistics, archive and ethnography and complex societies. To graduate from this major we have to study 5 years and read a lot, usually the first two years, then we have to read specific subjects and do a lot of workfield.I would change the...

  Hi, in today blog i´m going to talk about time travel When thinking about this I immediately would like to visit the past. The time of colonization of the Americas, because I am deeply interested in how the amerindian cultures lived and understood the coming of europeans. Their ideational representation of the world and understanding of these types of “outsiders”. There’s a quote from levis-strauss that goes something like “while the europeans were searching for a soul in the indian (amerindian) communities, the indians were drowning europeans to see if they had a body like theirs” That means that, being “human” or a “person” in europe is whether if you have a soul; and being human in amerindian communities is related to “having a body”. I would like to see and understand this type of thinking. And also I would like to understand the different cultures that were living there. That is because today we don't have a lot of data to think about these societies and we don't have th...

  Hi again, it's me, Sebastián and today I am going to talk about my dream job. I would like to work doing academic research in topics like gender equality, anthropology in class studies and ontological research in amerindian societies. This job has the characteristic of being interdisciplinary, moving a lot in different contexts, having to stay a long time in the community and sharing ways of living. I want this job because I like research and spending time with people. Also I love to listen to different kinds of realities that people have been living usually unnoticed. I would like it because I think that it's important to theorize these different ways of living, especially if these results are going to affect these communities.  I think I would be good at this job because I am currently working on the abilities and skills to perform well in this. It usually requires a lot of discipline, comprehensive skills, social skills and systematic thinking. I think that if I´m not rea...

 While I was doing this, and remembering my best holiday I immediately thought about this one When I was in my final year of highschool, after my graduation took place in 2019, my class decided that we were going to Bariloche, Argentina for 5 days. It was our final grade and farewell was imminent. My class was sad because we had to say goodbye to this period of our life. I felt that way in a sense, but I was also excited for my future and very optimistic about it.  We went to nahuel huapi lake, a chocolate factory, a trip in the mountain and forest around the city, we played with other tourists that went there, we stayed in a fancy hotel and ate a lot of food. And we spent a lot of money on chocolate, icecreams and souvenirs. We did so many things that it was hard to remember. But overall, my favorite memory of being there was going to a costume party, I was dressed as a pirate and my best friend was dressed as a mermaid.  I appreciate this holiday because I had the oppor...

 Hi, my name is sebastian acuña and I would like to visit italy. I would like to go there because there is a beautiful weather. They have temperate climate and the temperature is ideal.  About Italy I know a few things. I know that there are one of the most important monuments in the world, like the tower of pisa, the roman coliseum, the aqueducts of the ancient cities, etc. I would like to go there beacouse of the arquitecture and culture.  I would like to do things like visiting the museum, my friends, eat different kinds of cheese and icecream. As well as traveling around the country, specially go to venece.  I would like to study there, becaouse I donst think that i am capable of stay there more than an academic period. I would like study anthropology with my friend, Elena and reaserch about different topics in this matter. To be honest, I wouldn´t be so excited to go there if it weren´t for my beloved friend.  I hope I can go there one day, It´ll be one of ...