Fourth Blog: A photograph you like

The photograph I chose was taken by me in the summer of 2018. I took it when we were crossing by barge in the Austral Zone, the windows were huge and I sat there looking at the ocean, it was wonderful.

The truth is that I feel a very strange connection with the sea, I love it and it intrigues me. I love being on the beach, in silence, with my feet on the water, listening to the sound of the waves. It calms me down too much, I feel a lot of peace. That's why I like the photo, it makes me feel incredibly small in the vastness of the beautiful ocean and that amazes me. 

It also brings back memories of that beautiful trip that I shared with my family.

Third Blog: A person in your field that you admire

Sonia Montecino is a chilean writer and anthropologist. Her work is characterized by the intersection of literature and anthropology. She is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chile and a National Prize for Humanities and Sciences. Her works haunt ethnic studies and gender perspectives from a feminist perspective. Among these are "Mothers and Huachos", "Chilean Women: Fragments of a story" and "Myths of Chile: Encyclopedia of beings, appearances and charms".

I think her work is extremely interesting and wonderful. She has been very inspiring when it comes to conducting essays around anthropological themes. I also find gender perspective work very important, because it deconstruct the machismo that has always been instilled in us. As for ethnic studies, I consider that these play a role in knowing another version of the colonizing history because it omits too much information about our roots. I've learned too much from her and I really love her job.