A tour of my life

  Hi, I’m going to talk about anthropologist Sonia Montecino who I admire. She was born on November twelve, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, in Chile and is currently sixty-six years old, studying anthropology at the University of Chile and years later did a doctorate at the Leiden in Holland. She has been awarded in 2005, Altazor Prize, for the book "Mitos de Chile. Diccionario de Seres, Magias y Encantos". In 2004, she was awarded by the University of Chile, as Women Generation Century XXI. And in 1992, she was honored by the Chilean Academic of the Language, when she awarded an award for the book “Madres y Huachos, Alegorías del Mestizaje Chileno”. She won the national prize for humanities and social sciences in Chile in two thousand and thirteen. She was one of the first women to enter the gender perspective in Chile and developed a proposal to understand the Latin American and Chilean identity, based on the construction of the feminine and masculine in our...

The Anthropology is a discipline that can study all areas of human life, as they relate to each other and can see that behavior both in the present and in the past, to be able how relationships can act or how people see themselves. Therefore, their study is relevant in almost all areas of social life. My major in all its disciplines should seek a participatory character, social intervention, and transformation. Therefore, the work of the anthropologist implies a reflection from the researcher himself about what he studies and its link with that research. I would contribute from anthropology to the eradication of obstetric violence, from a gender perspective, understanding that it is a symbolic violence against women and a violation of human rights. This violence that occurs mainly in the delivery rooms is usually ignored. By identifying the key points of how such violence occurs, public policies can be implemented to prevent it from continuing to reproduce.

  That photo means for a mix of funny memories and a bit of anger. The photo alone is not special, I only keep it because I laugh about the story and because I find that my dog looks cute. It’s a silly story. My mom and I have always liked to have plants and plant herbs such as basil, oregano, coriander, mint and many more, plants always grow healthy, but with irons is another story, they rot by watering, dry, or die. We still managed to survive some mints. My dog really likes to sunbathe, the problem is that in my house the sun points to the plants, and rarely goes to concrete. In the photo my dog is sunbathing on the mint T.T, the only good thing was that his coat smelled  minty. Although the mint did survive, and I still have it. Also my dog did not sunbathe there again.

A few years ago, I liked many kinds of food, especially meat meals. But when I became a vegetarian my eating style changed radically, and my tastes in food adapted to that change, I became interested in isralei food, Thai food because many of their meals can become vegetarian and India because they have many meatless meals because of their religion. Now my favorite food is shakshuka accompanied with garlic bread. It is prepared with red lentils, garlic, onion, red pepper, tomato, and tomato sauce. First you must cook the lentils in vegetable broth for ten minutes, then you must chop the onion, garlic, and the bell pepper in the form of dice, then sauté them in olive oil. To finish, mix the lentils, vegetables, a little tomato sauce, season in a pot and add a fried egg on top. It can be accompanied with rice, but I like it with garlic bread.

If I think of a technological article, I could not say that I have a favorite, in general I use different articles in my daily life that make it easier for me to do certain activities. The technology helps me cook, for example to make a cake or cookies I use my oven, also when I buy frozen food not to cook, I use my microwave. So, as I use technological items, I can almost always say I have a favorite, but I can say the one that helps me the most today: my computer. By the pandemic, face-to-face classes were cancelle d, and the university moved to an online mode. To study, read, and write in college, I need a computer, a cell phone can do those things, too, but it’s not that fast and it doesn’t have that much memory to keep on the card all the material that the university delivers.  

As a child I always wanted to be a dancer, I was in many ballet classes or modern dance, but I never concretized anything to become a professional. When I started my last school year, I didn’t know if I wanted to study acting or anthropology. So, to be able to choose I was guided by the universities I wanted to go according to the major. To enter that major you must give a "selection test" at the university you want to apply for part of the PSU/PTU, if you don’t pass the test, it you can’t get into major. I gave the test in three universities, but I didn’t approve in my favorite. Then I decided to study anthropology, since I was always close to that profession, because part of my family exercises it. Currently I do not regret, I'm very happy studying anthropology, because my experiences inside the university despite the pandemic have been good.