About a good anthropologist!

Hello Again! 

Today I'm going to talk to you about a person who I consider a very good and experimented anthropologist, but today I want to do a game: I'm going to give to you a few characteristics about this person and you will have to guess who is the person that I'm talking! Let's play and good luck! If you can't guess, don't worry because at the end of the post I'm going to tell to you who is this amazing anthropologist.  

First I'm going to talk to you about his personal life! If you put attention, here is the first clue, this person is a MAN! 

OK, now I'm going to talk to you about some things of his personal life:

He was born in 1930 at Chicago, he had 83 years old, yes is amazing but he still alive, luckily, he studied anthropology at the University of Chicago too. He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the university of Michigan, and here he studied with Leslie White

 ( an anthropologist who talks about the sociocultural evolution). Besides he earned a Ph. D. at the Columbia University in 1954. 

He taught at the University of Michigan. 

Now I'm going to talk about the characteristic that makes me admire this person: in the sixties he became politically active, protesting against the Vietnam War ( if you see my another post you can realized that I really hate the war!). He wrote a lots of articles in protest against the Vietnam War, I think that he was really brave, because at that time,  when the students or professors the universities decided not allow to them to continue studying or working there. 

One of his distinguishes students was Gayle Rubin, who writes about feminist anthropology, and she is very successful. 

I don't know more things about his private life like if he have sons or wife, but I think that is not the important thing about he, so I'm going to talk to you, about some of his  works and theories. 

His best known theory talks about the " wild opulence", specifically in his book "The Economy of  Stone Age", the wild opulence is the concept that this anthropologist use to define  the behavior of wild communities that do not have a state, he said that this communities, don't have a lot of resources, but  they share all that they have! 

This anthropologist do a lot of his field work in Hawaii,  this fact makes me admire he more, because I really love Hawaii, and I think that is very important do anthropological work there!

With these clues, I hope you have been able to guess  about who I'm speaking to you!

But If you don't, don't worry  because here is a picture about this amazing anthropologist 

Yes!!! I was talking  to you about MARSHALL SAHLINS!

( this picture is when he was younger, because now he look like a very cute grandfather!)

About World War two

 

Today I'm going to talk to you about some reflexions that I have do about the world war two.

I have seen a lots of movies about this war. When I was in high school my teachers give to me a lot of names of this movies and we have to do a work about this topic, only seeing this movies. Most of this movies are about Hitler and the Jewish holocaust. For me, the most shocking aspect of this war is precisely this: The holocaust, because I think is very ridiculous killing people only because they have a particular provenance, religion or belief. So because of that the holocaust is very shocking to me and makes me feel very sad, because a lot of people die only because they don't believe in the same of the dictator. 

I never understand the reason of the wars, because the countries fight for the territories, but in the war they destroy the territories and the habitants of this territories die unjustifiably. 

I have read Ana Frank, this book tells the Ana's story, she is a little jewish  girl who had to scape with her family from the holocaust, all her family die, except her father. This story is very sad, and evidence the violence and injustices of the war.

When we see movies or read about the war, we can learn lessons of this war, for example  I learnt one lesson: is very important know to solve our problems by talking or in a pacific way, otherwise the problems grow, and we can't control them, involving innocent people in them, and this is very unfair.

Because of that I think that the war are very unnecessary because they are very violent and expensive, and the money that is being spent on it, could be used for better purposes.

I will never be willing to go to the war, but if I go to the war, it would be to help to the war affected people, but I  think this can be a little bit dangerous.

I  really hope that the World War 3 never take place.

I hope that with two world wars, the countries have learned that wars are not the best way to fix their problems.