Anthropology

I chose Anthropology as career in a period in which I didn’t know what to study. I felt lost but at least I knew that I wanted some career pertaining to the social sciences. Once I was talking with my psychologist about the factors that produced stress to me and she said that the career election was one of the main ones. I finally chose Anthropology by curiosity and mainly because it seemed to solve some doubts (or to approach it at least) that I had with respect to our society.

Anthropology is the science that studies the culture and its different expressions. Anthropology also tries to respond the following question: how can we explain the cultural variation? As a society doesn`t exist without a culture and considering that the culture is a complex, symbolic, integrated and shared phenomenon, the Anthropology has an inexhaustible “battle area” (as economic Anthropology, rural Anthropology, Anthropology of the development, medical Anthropology, etc.).

My favourite subject is the study of the social success associated to soccer (as the study of the violence in the stadiums). The most important thing for an anthropologist is to have a multidisciplinary vision and to make its work as objective as possible (following an empirical method).