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Biodata- 1. Academic Biography

Valentina Herrera Quijanes is a Social Anthropology graduate by Universidad de Chile in the year 2021. Her principal studies are about the territorial problems where the social conflicts were between the local residents, principally in rural zone, and state industry or private industry. Inclusive, her dissertation was about this topic, making a connection with social problems respect to the ages and old age, specifically the event in sacrifice zones in their country. Her studies contributed in the progressive extraction of the industry in the zones, issue that improves the situation like improve the health levels and the most important the territorial recovery. This is her most important achievement. Her interest of studies was always of a character more pragmatic, working actively with communitys that in general see their reality confront with the effects of the neoliberalism. For this motive she left the academy, and they aren’t her principal area of interest. But she ...

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English Study Challenges

For me learn english to has been very difficult, not write rather read it and speak it. The pronunciation is the more difficult for me, but I think that for write I just need to know more words. In this case the english levels what I did a studied in the university was good for write, the practice in the blog helped me. But lack more practice in the conversation, in the speaking, and in help in the read the long texts. But for me part I'm in that trying to learn. This year my penultimate level was good, and the miss was wonderful because not was strict and he gave us our time, also that helped us to have confidence and not be shameful. I believe that the learn have that be in the confidence and not in the difference. I don't Know that pedagogic form or methodology form would can be the best for learn english but definitely i don't have a great new learning of the english in the university. Not for the professors this is for the system in that this imparted. Is ver...

Changes to my study program

When I entered to university I thinked "this not is for me". In the school always I had been a good level and learn never resulted difficult for me. But my first year of university was very hard. These I believe that is the first fail of my career. The professors begin their class like if all the students had been the same level educational, with lot technicalities, a lot arrogance. I remember that I taked a year and half in understand and join that they said. Never I readed and listened to nameds like Marcel Mauss, Franz Boas, etc. And nobody (even professors) introduced anything. That was like if all had an idea about what is really the anthropology. That would be the first change that I’d do, an educational more pedagogical, where all can participed without shame to blunder. I talk of knowledge and learning horizontal. My second idea for to change in my career if about something that I said. The names of the "fathers of theory" always are since the male word and ...

Summer holidays

Since that travel out of chile my enthusiasm for know places growed and the fear since there in forward has decreased. Summer holidays always is the moment for me, for escape of the rutine, of the norm and, I has did all for can continue travel each summer. Like I haven't big responsabilities can to do. Year ago I went to Perú and Bolivia was the first step to travel solitary or without my family. I Hope know other places like Ecuador and I have in my memory in the future a lot good memories. My plan is continue travel anywhere. For this I want work during year o anywhen but always have a respite. I consider the summer but I'm stay very chilly and I love the summer and sun, and heat. But the summer not always is in the same date in all the worl. This is an a anvantage. My travels aren't like turist, always are with few money, backpacking or boughting to low prices. My stile is the aventure with good company, be "aperrados". Nothing wealthin. I have lucky a...

Selfies

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I take this opportunity for be myself. I love the pictures if I like me how I see myself. I'm Zodiac Leo and everyone says that we are conceited or narcissistic and this is real. Jajajaja I'm Joking, Im sorry Now yes. This is a great opportunity for say that I thinks about self-photos. I think that the selfies are a reflex of how we are, for we stop, and we look in of ourselves. Is shameful and always we chooise the best picture, the picture that show an image that the rest positive value. I always take selfies photos but never upload all in the web. Today I looked a video where an Orangutan take photos to self, he looks self and see how is he self with a lot interest. This I seem beautiful, the interest for our self, for our face, our nose, our eyes, our hands, for know better each and broke the insecurities and the social anxiety. I believe that all body are beautiful and we duty that know ourselves and value ourselves before that the rest also broke the stereotypes and t...

Postgraduate studies

Hi readers, after to study the university career ¿what? In my case I think two or three things. In addition of start to work for subsist I would like continue study. Like I love work with child I has thanked study two years more for be professor. I would can study pedagogy in some moment of my life I hope in this university. I don't believe that right away but more forward can be. Other option is complete the mention of archeology, like I study Anthropology I can study archeology in few times. This for that I like the area of archeology of the present. Work the social problems of the present or ago few ages back as of material objects. How can understand our humans life by means of objects? This I would like to know. In my ultimate option but the more real is studies of postgraduate of my same career. In this case I would like I want to keep studying and specialize in migrations, socio-environment conflict or age topics. The truth I don't know what professors have program...

My future job

Since I into to my career I thinked work out of an office, an work that move me, where I continue learn, where I meet people and I can feel useful to my way. I really hope have in the future a job related to my career. But i don't have conviction if this can be possible. This because always all the people say, you really have work field? And sure, But will be more difficult find an work because the anthropology isnt always an productivity carreer or useful for the market. But, I really hope will work something about my career.  I would like work in something proyect or an organization that work current topics, always organizing the social colectives for example I would like work topics like gender, socio-environmental conflicts, migration, populars quarters, keeping in mind the opinion and the reality of the people. I LOVE DO ETNOGRAPHIES. But nobody pay for this ideas or work.  A of my dreams is work with childs. I would like work like professor in rural school i...

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TOC and obsession

My moon zodiac sign is Virgo, for this I think that some things (o persons) are for me an obsession. The order and organization for example. I love the stationary like the post it, pencils, bookmarks, notepads, etc. Though sometime don't function in my real life. But in addition to my obsession for organize I'm very intense with what I like. For example I love the cats. I have an especial passion for the felines but the cats are my favorite and like the people that are dogs lover I'm cat lovers. In the street if I have see some cats I have stop for talk to them, stroke them and purr together for an time. I have a cat him name is Ninurt and us joining from five years ago. He is a cat very furry and its hair light and be in throughout my home since the chairs to the clothes but haven't problem I love this cat anyway. In the life I had other cat the first was Matilde and lived with me for thirteen year. How you can view lately I'm have a little obsession with the ...

An embarrassing moment (of a lot)

Usually I'm a girl that living embarrassings moments. This maybe because I'm so shameful. When I was a little kid my personality was impossible to believe. I was very lead, danced and sang the rocker songs of my dad and the old songs but beauty songs of my grandma. One of the memories that they tell me and tell my friends about little Valentina dancing Proud Mary by Creedence or "Rouli" according to me and moving a little ass from one side to another. Also I remember when went up to an stage for sing whit some singer of "La nueva ola". Today this storys causes me a lot of laughter. But now that I have more grown the embarrassings episodes are always with me in the floor. The last occasion was in the house of my friend Violeta. It is an old and big house with an old and big curve stair. Me of course for some reason fell and rolled downstairs. When I arrived at the floor Violeta's parents asked me, you fell? and I clearly denied everything because it w...

The most freak concert

In my youth, but rather in my adolescence, assist to concerts was the best the experience. Everything started with the first of all: The Crush power music. But in this occasion I'll talk about the concert more crazy in my life. The year 2014 came to Chile, to Movistar Arena Arctic Monkeys. This wasn't my favorite band but it was my friends' favorite band and and him songs bring me good memories. In those times me was the most poor of my friends and asist to Arctic Monkeys wasn't an option for me. Never bougth the ticket but the day of the event I went with my friends and with other two friends that hadn't ticket. The story can be summarized with me sticking with a chewing gum an old ticket of concert to the used ticket of AM. With this fake ticket I was able to enter just at the moment when it sounded "I'm Yours" The problem was finding my friends inside the enclosure... Well, and that my story seems a lie every time I told it.

I would like to visit Ecuador

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Hi again!! In this post i would like talk you about what is the place or country that I would like to visit.  I would like discover all the magic of Ecuador, this mostly because one of my dream is into the Ecuadorian Jungle. This selection is due to my visit to Bolivia in 2017 was very short and I can't continue the route for the jungle area. Ecuador was the next stand.  I'm eager for I meet the landscapes wooded and wet, all the flora and fauna typical, and I feel small in so much vastness. I like the flowers and your colors, I love the insects and I don’t fears the wild animals, neither at extreme experiences.  Other motive is because in my country, Chile, don't have this places and because the first I want know is all the Latin America and its geographical and cultural diversity.  This dream I think that an adventure, I don't believe live in the jungle but the anthropology that is my career is very good in this country, this country can be...

A photograph of the School Joane Florvil

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This Photography is very recent. was took it an photographer Friend of our school, The school Joane Florvil I am also one of those people who think that the photographs are transported, they are a bridge to the situations and sensations that we have lived. This photograph gathers many dreams and goals fulfilled, gathers experiences of a very nice project that could be realized. Here are some of the women who were part of the formation of the Escuela Popular Joane Florvil. Mainly transports me to a moment of my life where I decided to become part of this project and brings together all the happiness and good company that generated that decision. In this photograph we can find each of the smiles that helped generate trust and communication between women even when we speak different languages. No doubt I will treasure the memory that this image brings me forever, and I hope that it can be within my reach to remind me and take me to travel at that time. 

Why did you choose this career/study programme? (post 2)

When I was child I thiked ¿what Will be of my future? And all I wanted was to help. My intentions of child about help they always had to do with people and animals, what I most wanted was to learn, know and explore to help the rest. In that sense  I thank my self from the past, this girl because this security and hope in the rest and in the life they helped me get where I am today. In the actuality I study Anthropology and despite the adversities has been a Good desition. I chose this career because I realized that I had many interesting things, it was versatile and there were people in it that I admired in her. Part of my decision was thanks to the advices of some women very important in my life. My mom first, after my aunt Roxana and some teachers of my school. I am sure that learning does not stop at university but being here has been important. I hope to learn from life and from those who build this life every day.

My experience writing blogs

This year is the first twice that I have a blog and writing in him. In the beginning  I felt very shy for tell things of my life still more if this was in inglish.  The experience was nice because I can write in inglish more than speaking. When I was writing blogs I felt like if I stay talk with myself and I remembered things fun of my life and also things boring of my semester, for example. It was useful for think my life and practices the inglish.  The Topics was fun and I liked talk of my cat, of my favorite place, etc. But I would add talk about the favorite food or to tell us an recipe.  But one thing that I don’t like me was the monotony that this exercise created, because take a lot the time and we would can learn with more forms the inglish. In this case I can say that I miss learning the vocabulary, pronunciation and oral interaction. Things where wasn’t useful the writing. In my opinion it would be more fun and more practical play games an...

The North is on my way

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The North is on my way Lately I have been able to know different places of Chile, I have ventured to go down and backpack most time of my vacations. Even when all my destiny places have been surprising, my favorite place to stay is the north. This because it seems to me really beautiful. I love the sun of the north since coast until the mountain that is not the same sun of the city. Some places that I  know stay in the fifteenth, first and third region of Chile. But where really I was able to enjoy is in The Tarapacá's region. My favorite places are The coast of Iquique and the Altiplano. In all the region we can find beautiful places and wonderful scenery, as well as the life in the Iquique city is actively nocturnal and this I love it. You can take a walk at any moment of the day, rollerblading and even bathe in the sea that is amazing. Other motive because I love Iquique is because I can meet with my family, my cousins Violeta, Ankari and Rumi and my Aunt Roxana. Besides t...

Bad year, lazy semester

A universitys's semester always is diferent one to one. This is my second semester in the social mention in Anthropology career. Nevertheless, this not have been my best semester or not be a semester of my liking. In the commence this year I had subject very interesting, in special one called " Construcción social de lo medio ambiental, ecología cultural y perspectivas sistémicas"  because this was a subject of theory and I thik that this contributed much to my knowledge. But like I say this semester, the second semester have been more lazy even I selected my subjects. I feel that I have learned very little and the subject which I belived interesting have contributed a few about his themes. For example I have a subject called " Anthropology of feeding"  when all the reading are very bounded or very old. Neither the exercises are so thoughtful. On the other hand it's ending year and yet I don't have marks, for this I don't know ho...

Other places for learn in anthtopology

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For know what is anthropology today exist very webpages that hand in information for learn and reseacher for oneself. A lot times in the class I don't find all the perspectives and topics about the anthropology. For this is important know how websites can help us. Some they are very nearvy. For example in facebook exist an page than her name is Arte y Antropología. In this page your can find a lot text by different authors with different perspectives and different topics. Other webpage is CAF (Colectivo de antropólogas feministas) , this is a blog tha was build by women anthropologist of nacionality Argentina. In this page you can know an feminist perspective about the disipline and the more important woman in anthropology. Also is a good look into and look for about the videos (even in youtube, for example) than different professors or academics have uploaded into the web. They are about conference, congress, seminary or his self class.  An last advice is always searc...