The best in Anthropology

In first place, I have to say that it¡s very difficult to me to choose only one researcher of my field.
But If I have to make tis choice, I will choose Marvin Harris. I know this anthropologist in a curse about cultural materialism that I have in my career about 2 years ago.
Marvin Harris was an american anthropologist (from EEUU). He was born in New York on 1927 and died on 2001. He is very importan for the Anthropoloy because he introduced the topic called "Cultural materialism". In his work he combined Marx emphasis on the forces of production with Malthus insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system. Harris see these factors are determining the social structure of a society. He has focused on the relations between culture and ecology, and the way that the first are influenced by the second. Moreover, Harris has been write about the development of the anthropology theory, in a classic book The Rise of Anthropological Theory .
I like Harris because he introduced a new perspective about the culture. Generally, the culture is understood under a symbolic perspective, in terms of symbols and meanings. Harris, in opposition, think that the explication of the cultural fenomenom it is on the ecological variables, like population, production, technology and others. That because he formulating a materialist explanation for the treatment of “sacred cows” in Indian culture, talking about the proteins of the cows.

My career: Social Anthropology

I decide to study Social Anthropology because I have humanist interestings. In a begging I want to study Sociology, but then I found the Social Anthropoly and I decide that it's a better option, because I hate estadistics and I preffer an other kind of metodology, more near to the people. Athropology characterized it selfs like a discipline that have and etnohgraphic method, close to the subjects with she work. The Anthropology about a big and universality social problem: the Culture. We can add to this the discussion about the identity problem, that its also coneccted to the Culture. I think that this are very importants thematics, and in this point is where de Antrophologists contribute to the social investigación. However, this problemas are so big, that the Anthtropology it's very wide. You can apply this discipline to a lot of problems, like: Education, Medicine, Politics, Economics, Enviroment... etcétera. Tha anthropologist can make conbtributions to the society in all af this areas. I prefer the medical problems, because I think that the health/ilness sistem it's very important for how the people feel about it's selfs. The name of this it's the Medical Anthropology.

A photo that I like

This is a photo that I like a lot. It was the winner of the World Press Photo on 2005. This is a huge prize, because the World Press Photo it's the biggest competion of photos from all around the world.
This picture was taken by Finbarr O'Reilly, a canadian photograph from de Reuters agency. He took de picture August the first of 2005.
The image shows a woman waiting on an emergency centre of alimentation, because the both of them live in a country that suffering famine. This country is Nigeria, and the city was Tahoua.
I like this pic because I think that it's kind ok witness about an importante situation that happend to people in our world. Due to the fact that, even TODAY, people are starving in Africa, I think that this photo it's very important. It is a recordatory for the common people -incluiding myself-, because they tend to forget this grave situation that affect to human beings just like us.