EAF

My favourite subject is "elementos de la antropología física" (physic anthropology elements), which is like an introduction to physic anthropology, which is precisely what I want to follow as my life career..
I kinda love it also, 'cause is really precise and concise.. The teacher don't waste time talking about subjects that no one cares about.. And give us really accurate and pertinent lectures.. So is great..
Rodrigo Retamales is the one who is on charge of the class, but actually is not the only teacher we have at it 'cause he usually bring guest teachers and people to give us conferences.. Is REALLY an awesome class..
Since I had have quite a lot different teachers I have leanr about quite different subjects, avery single one of them really interesting for me.. The sessions that I liked the most were:
- the one about forensic anthropology
-the one about morphometry
-And the one about epidemiology.
Well a guess that's all..
See ya later, aligator..

What will comes tomorrow

I'm kinda obsessive, so I usually think about my future…
I guess that in 5 years from now, I'll be in England or Scotland doing a post doctorate or post grade, or taking a master’s degree related to forensic anthropology in order to be a better professional to get a better job once I come back to Chile…
To my family life I don’t have many expectations, ‘cause you never know… But I think that my mother’s side grand parents will probably be death… I mean both of them are pretty sick, so is pretty possible that they pass out soon…
In other areas I don’t want to do any predictions or assumptions, ‘cause I really can’t know what is going to happen… I just hope that I don’t get in any big trouble… And may parents and friends keep well..
So I guess that’s all, ‘cause I’m not in the talking mood.. So see ya later..

My mentor

Today I'll talk you about one of the greatest physic anthropologist ever: Sherwood Washburn (A.k.a. Sherry)
He was an American physical anthropologist and pioneer in the field of primatology, opening it to study of primates in their natural habitats. His research and influence in the comparative analysis of primate behaviors to theories of human origins established a new course of study within the field of human evolution.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelors Degree in Anthropology in 1935, followed by a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1940.
After leaving Harvard, he took a position as associate professor of anatomy in Columbia University College of Phisicians and Surgeons, where he remained for eight years.
Then from 1947-1958 he was a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, for a time serving as department chair. He left the University of Chicago for a professorship in University of California (Berkeley), where he remained until his retirement in 1979. In 1975 the university named him to the select position University Professor, one of just 35 such appointments granted since the position was first created in 1960. He died in Berkeley in 2000 at age 88. His published works are:
-Social Life of Early Man, Rutledge Library 2004
-"The Evolution of Man", Scientific American v239 n3 p194-208 September 1978
-Human evolution: Biosocial perspectives, edited with Elizabeth McCown, Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co. 1978
-Ape Into Man; A Study of Human Evolution, Boston: Little, Brown. 1973.
I think that he is awesome, 'cause his work open a whole new field of study for physical anthropologists, and contributed a lot in the studies of human behavior evolution.
And well I think that's all.. See ya!

My career

Well, as you may -or not- know, I'm studying to be an anthropologist.. To be more precise a biological anthropologist..
It's fun when you realize that actually no one out of the anthropological or bio-scientific field knows what a biological anthropologist is or do.. And it made some sense, after all we usually work in not really public research or associated to more known scientific disciplines.
The biological or physic anthropology is actually related to many other sciences and has a huge work field..
We can do from skeleton identification to epidemiology research.. So we contribute in so much different ways to society that it would be really exhausting to name them all.. So I'll talk just about the line that I want to follow: the forensic physic anthropology, which is related to police work.
In our discipline we work with bones, usually to identified people's skeletons, in order to solve crimes or help relatives to find someone they lost -like when there is genocide, a biological anthropologist team is in charge to identified the people in the communal tombs-... we also identified the kind, time and origin of bone wounds.. we can get tons of information just from a few bones, it's awesome, really..
We usually work with magnifying glasses, tapes of measuring, paintbrushes, X-ray photographies, some liquids and several other things that it's unnecessary and excessive to mention..
Well since I already said which area chose, now I just have to say why was this and not other one of the many that there are.. And that's related to my personality..
I always like crime and mystery related things.. Like murders biographies, suspense novels and tales, criminology cryptology and all that kind of things related to that kind of subjects.. And I also have a huger interest for things related to death, I don't know why, but there is it.. So I always wanted to work in something related to police, crime or death it self.. And it just happens that forensic biological anthropology have it all! So It's kinda the perfect career to me...
And well I think that this is more than enough.. so bye!