Cristóbal Cárdenas

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julio 03, 2021

I would like to travel so far away in time, I don’t know, it could be the XXVI or XXVII century. I’m curious about human destiny, have we been able to overcome climate change? We will live next to humanoid robots?, Or the planet just simply have been collapsed? These are questions that I will probably never get answers to. I would like to know how the life way of people in that time is, to know how they live, what they eat, how the job is, how the culture is, what technological inventions exist, will people still eat animals? Anyways, there are too many questions that I have. I would also like to tour the future world, and why not, travel to other planets if that exist, maybe people lives in different planets, or is too ambitious? I think I still have faith that humanity will make it through with XXI century problematics, like it is environmental crisis product of the extractivist capitalism. On the other hand, I don’t think I would like to stay in the future as tempting as it is, th

julio 02, 2021

During my whole life I’ve worked in different types of jobs, from customer support to quality control staff on a fishing plant in Quellón , Chiloé. I think that any job satisfies me, all of this is why, in the future I would like to do a postgraduate abroad, my dream is to teach in some university while I dedicate myself to the investigation. Yes, perhaps it is the traditional dream of those who want to dedicate themselves to an academic career, however, I believe that in this case the anthropology (career that I am now studying) gives wide possibilities of future and is very flexible, for what I feel that I would never get bored. I imagine myself doing fresh air field work, as far as possible travel to different countries, to know different cultures and different people. I don’t have an specific country where I would like to study in, so I’m open to all the possibilities. In this sense, I don’t figure myself sitting in an office my whole life, that is why if I don’t get the chance o

junio 15, 2021

I would like to take advantage of this blog to comment something I’m very happy about. Lots of people say that consumerism is most pristine expression of neoliberalism, but ¿who could resist to buy half price books? I would like to confess that in the past Cyberday I spent my savings on books (forgive me, Marx), what else could I do if Buscalibre had them on half-price, only problem is that they will delay close to a month, blessed patience. Between more interesting books I bought it’s found “the adventures of merchandise” of Anselm Jappe, book that I thought would be useful for my thesis project, thing that my professor sharply denied (maybe I should have asked before buy it), therefore, it would have to wait in the bookshelf until it’s time comes. The other interesting book is “the cheese and the worms” of Carlos Ginzburg, a story that tell us the ravings of a middle-aged miller named Menocchio, who believed that the world was a huge cheese, from which the angels were formed that we

junio 15, 2021

For a long time, I didn’t know what to study, I went through several careers before arriving to anthropology. I studied in the health area like medical technology and biotechnology, however, I always knew that what I liked had to do with letters more than biology or maths, that’s how I get to anthropology. I think that what I most like about mi career it’s that allow me the chance of thinking and imagine different possible worlds. In my opinion anthropology provides tools to understand in a holistic way the world we live in, which let us see and analyze the society from a perspective open to differences. The best is that when studying and learning about other cultures, allow us to understand that how the world that we live in is organized not natural, but built, and therefore it’s possible to transform it. On the other hand, and from a most personal perspective and around mi preferences, this career let me do what I most like, to read, to discover and know, and if I could make of tha

junio 15, 2021

The best concert i have been on was a Black Sabbath concert. The band came to Chile the october 4th of 2013 and presented in monumental stadium. The best of all was that the show had the original band members with Ozzy Osbourne as a vocalist. I remember that year i traveled from Osorno to Santiago, so me and some Friends rented a departament. Around 45000 people went to the concert, who listened the classic songs such as “Paranoid”, “Iron Man”, “Children of the graves” and “N.I.B”. The show was inaugurated by the band Megadeth of Dave Mustaine. Most curious was that the concert was on a farewell tour, so they weren´t supposed to return to the country, obviously this didn´t happend and the band came back in 2016, nevertheless, the fact of seeing this two classic rock and metal bands on live, has been one of the most spectacular and exciting experiences on my life.

junio 11, 2021

I would like to go to Mongolia, its in Asia. Its located between Russia and Chine. Its capital is Ulan Bator. The country is very interesting to me because of it culture and traditions. This country has 3,1 million inhabitants, of which 30 percent are nomads and seminomads. Mongolia is the country with lower density of population in the whole world. The people there, use horses as their main transportation, actually there are as much horses as persons, or even more. If i ever go to Mongolia, i would like to travel the mongolian stepps by horse and meet the nomand people. What i most like of the country its their traditional costume and unique music. I also find very interesting their gastronomy, the fact that they make food with high caloric indices, because of the cold winter that they have.I would like to stay in the contry time enough to travel and get to know it well, but i wouldn't like to stay there for living.