I think that the anthropology has one big challenge actually; this is with the society. To understand this new deal is necesary to be clear that the conditions to do etnografic and anthropologic work aren´t the same since the discipline was created.
In the XIX century anthropology was useful to big european empires, who sent cientists to learned all about the native culture and so help to dominated it. This populations were strange, so the mainly questions about them where how they were organized?, how were them religion? how them act in the economic matters? and all the thing that serve to ilustrated a general view of them.
Actually this is different; there aren´t "savages" o groups of people totally unknown, besides there are an etic matter about to interfere and treat as an study "object" cultures and people.
Now i think the mainly challenge that the anthropology has is to diversify it study object; not just study the indians or the patrimony, the "others" (as we name them), but also our own society, our own social structure and power relations. This topic are mainly study by sociologists, but is also necesary and anthropologic view.
We, as students, have subject that are more oriented to this tradicional topic, but there are subject that are considering to work more in public politcs, for example.
This way, we could extend our space of work, and mainly we could focus in the big problematics that affect actually to our society, and not just a part of it.
Another challenge that is important is to legitimaze our discipline in the same society; most of the people doesn´t know what we do!, or where, or how. We can´t help to change some problems of people is they don´t consider our work. Probably, to achive this, is necesary to incorporate also a cuantitative perspective, to give more validity to our studies. The anthropologists studies are generally studies of cases, but to generalize and say that "this is a social issue" is necesary to take a cualtitative view and this way, make the study more representative.
Well, this is it, i think that our mainly challenge is with the society; finally, we are scientist, we want to know more, and how i think that know for knowing has not much sense, we has to know to find a solution to the problem that affect the majority of people.
I think that the anthropology has one big challenge actually; this is with the society. To understand this new deal is necesary to be clear that the conditions to do etnografic and anthropologic work aren´t the same since the discipline was created.
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Actually this is different; there aren´t "savages" o groups of people totally unknown, besides there are an etic matter about to interfere and treat as an study "object" cultures and people.
Now i think the mainly challenge that the anthropology has is to diversify it WW study object; not just study the indians or the patrimony, the "others" (as we name them), but also our own society, our own social structure and power relations. This topic are mainly study by sociologists, but is also necesary and anthropologic view.
We, as students, have subject that are more oriented to this tradicional topic, but there are subject that are considering to work more in public politcs, for example.
This way, we could extend our space of work, and mainly we could focus in the big problematics that affect actually to our society, and not just a part of it.
Another challenge that is important is to legitimaze our discipline in the same society; most of the people SVA doesn´t know what we do!, or where, or how. We can´t help to change some problems of people is they don´t consider our work. Probably, to achive this, is necesary to incorporate also a SP cuantitative perspective, to give more validity to our studies. The anthropologists studies are generally studies of cases, but to generalize and say that "this is a social issue" is necesary to take a cualtitative view and this way, make the study more representative.
Well, this is it, i think that our mainly challenge is with the society; finally, we are scientist, we want to know more, and how i think that know for knowing has not much sense, we has to know to find a solution to the problem that affect the majority of people.
Ana maria,
well done and clear. check the revisons
miss
p.s. you got a 6.5