The career I'm studying it's called Anthropology, but there are three different specialties in it, and you can choose one in third year; these are: Social Anthropology, Phisical Anthropology and Archaeology. I get into this career because I wanted to take the first specialty: Social Anthropology; actually I still want to be a social anthropologist, but I like archaeology too, but not as much as I like the first one. I'm studying this career because I'm really interested in the human variability, in the differences between cultures and the differences inside them; in the study of the culture, and the phenomenons asociated with it, like the variability of religions, beliefs, social and political structures, etc. and the relationship between different cultures that share the same space (country, city, etc.). I'm interested in studying the man himself, like a cultural an social entity.
The contributions of this career to the society consist in the knowledge that it gives about a culture, and that the information of the anthropologists investigations can be used for different state institutions, or independent ones . Actually, is a very extended career, is widen, since you can work in very different areas, for example, politics,cultural, economics, social, etc. The professional in this career (social anthropology) need different kind of tools, but it depends in the area of interest. Usually, it's very necessary have a good formation in the investigation area, is very useful for every anthropologist or archaeologist to have knowledge about how to make an investigation, try to have good relationship with the people, not be so invasive (in case of doing a field work). And a very important thing, is that is very necessary that the governement, specially in Chile, consider the social careers and take the knowledge that they give and make it useful for the society. It's very important too that this knowledge can be public, that people can get closer to this kind of science and to the information that it gives, because it's precisely to the society that this science is trying to interfere. My favourite subject is "anthropology III", it's very interesting since we're learning about anthropological theories, specially the materialistic theories. I really like this subject, because the teacher not only explains this theories very well but he gives real examples, he takes the theories to the real world, to the real society, to the real cultures. Also, he gives space to discussion not only between us but with him too, I think it's very important that the teachers let us discuss about the topics they are talking about. Well, ans, as I said before, I 'll like to study social anthropology, so I really enjoy this subject, I'm very interested in anthropological theories, since they can give the tools to explain social phenomenons.
