Lisette Blog

to start I have to say that I have never been good at writing, so the blog at the beginning of the semester made me a bit complicated. Later when we started doing them week to week it was easier for me, in general it is a good tool to support the subject regarding the practice.  My writing skills in English have been developed more, since to write in general I have no complications but it does not suit me much, but I do feel that I improve my writing in English. As a suggestion, I would like to include more instances of "listening" and written tests in the future to measure more usually the progress within the course. My opinion of the course in general is that they give the basic tools to deal with speaking this language, but maybe they need to implement more content in all the phases that the course takes (English I, II, III and IV). All this opinion and constructive criticism is based only on this level of English and conversations with other colleagues who have taken le...

My favorite subject this semester was Ethnography Workshop. In this field we are taught how to do an ethnographic field work and represent it in a video or in a written work. The research topic was freely chosen, as well as the place where we would investigate it, giving us a week to be able to perform the terrain and based on that, begin our work. The subject is carried by 4 professors: America Valenzuela, Andre Menard, Hector Morales and Xotchil Inostroza. In classes we saw different ways of approaching ethnographic work: how to interview, how to select informants, work with archives, among other things. This subject works in conjunction with the Research Workshop, since some contents are deepened, but here the work was not so pleasant. This subject I liked a lot because it uses what professors teach, but from a topic that you like and share with your work group, in addition to the closeness of some of them and the kindness when having doubts, besides the different interesting t...

My favorit expert in my field is Claude Levi-Strauss. He was a French anthropologist and ethnologist which introduced the structuralist approach in the social sciences. The most important works he has written was The Elementary Structures of Relationship, Sad Topical, The Wild Thought, The Mythological, among others. About the first book named he wrote about how families were organized,  explaining that according to his thought the kinship was based on alliances (marriage). Sad Tropics, in comparison, is about an ethnographic fieldwork carried out by him in Brazil between 1953 and 1939. On the third book named Levi-Strauss he explains that the supposed "primitive thought" uses the same structuring rules as the most modern of scientific thoughts. Finally, in The Mythological, analyzes over 4 volumes the significant elements of thousands of myths through all kinds of oppositions throughout the American continent. In summary, in view of his most well-known works I can say ...