viernes, 19 de mayo de 2023

Some changes about Anthropology

Anthropology as a career taught by educational centers, is very recent on par with the Social Sciences, even more if we talk about regions like Latin America, with a maximum of 70 years in the institutionalization of the discipline, an example of this is the educational institution in which I am immersed, the University of Chile, originally called "Center for Anthropological Studies" founded in 1954. Unfortunately, I do not know how were the academic curricula for the Anthropology-Archaeology career in the past, that is why I only talk about the curriculum that I will study. 

Both figures are some old publications of the "Centro de estudio Antropologicos".

It is very unknown to many that when you enter the university, you do not enter as a student of Archaeology or Social Anthropology, you enter in the common plan of Anthropology, something like the career of Engineering, you study first the common plan and then if you do not pass this curriculum, you can not access the specialties that you like, in the case of Anthropology, these specialties are, Archaeology, Social Anthropology and Physical Anthropology. This way of teaching is for me, a big problem in the educational institutions that teach this career, since, the first contact with these sciences, kills the personal interest, knowledge and skills, wasting all the knowledge of the student. 

On the other hand, about the complexity of the bureaucratic culture in the universities, for me it is almost inconvenient, because all the benefits that the university gives you, require a lot of documentation and bureaucratic paperwork, and if you do not have the minimum tools to support your own needs, it is very obviously that has been impossible to study in conditions of absolute vulnerability.

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