miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2014

Malinowski

Bronislaw Malinowski is an anthropologist who was born in Krakow on  7th April of 1884.
Before being and anthropologist, he studied philosophy,  physics, maths, psychology and economy, but then he went to England to study the beautiful career, social anthropology.
In 1914 Malinowski went to Papua New Guinea, where he lived with people of a different culture.
Specially he studied "Kula", a ceremonial exchange of bracelets and necklaces in Trobriand Islands.
Malinowski is a very important man, because he transformed the anthropology. He was an expert ethnographer.
To  be an ethnographer, you have to live with another culture. It means that you have to learn the language, eat their food and make the same things as them. At the same time yo have to study all the situations of your experience in the place.
Personally I admire him, because his ethnography about Kula is so interesting and he did it in another time, when was difficult to travel.
Also, the text about kula was the fist I had to read at the university, so when I remember it I get very emotional.




miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2014

I love reading

When I was four years old my mother taught me to read and since that moment I didn´t stop reading.
The first book I read in my life was "The ugly duckling" and I was so happy, because it had stickers.
When I grew up I realized that I prefer non-fiction books. Specially I enjoy reading books about the second world war. In fact, my favourite book is "When Hitler stole pink rabbit. It was written by  Judith Kerr, a jewich girl who go out of Germany scaping of nazis.
Also I like to read books about the dictatorship in Chile and the last book I read was "Frazadas del Estadio Nacional" written by Jorge Montealegre. He tells what happened in the National Stadium in Chile, when people was kidnapped by the military.
Is a short but interesting book. I enjoyed reading it, because it motivates me to know more about this important period in Chile and be conscious about the reality lived by some people who was fighting for liberty.
I read the book in three days, so I recommend it to people who like short books and would like "listeing" to people who wanted to tell their story.