well... anthropology.. and the discipline in general... =)

Okay…. It’s not something I would write about but… well… I have to…
My discipline challenges are, in my perspective: to be known… I mean… really known… because every time I answer the hideous question of ‘what’s your degree again?’… And well after I answer ‘Anthropology ’… there’s a big question face looking at me… and when I try to explain what it is… nothing really changes… or they keep questioning shitty things…
In this University technology problems are big… after what I’ve heard, there’s a lot of instrumentation missing that’s essential for a good develop of the discipline… you know… we are studding to be professionals in one (or more) of three areas: Social and physical anthropology and Archaeology …. For the last two, technological instrumentation it’s very important, because we don’t work with people face to face in the essence but we work with death and ancient things, or with alive ones… and for an investigation we need analysis material… that aren’t in the faculty for example… or we can’t have access to them…
In educational terms… this degree it’s barely new in Chile, so nobody can expect it to be perfectly well organized and that what they teach it’s really useful, but we are fighting for this to change… and every year it’s getting better and the programs are well constructed and organized. The problem of education, maybe, in some cases, is the teachers who don’t know how to teach properly, some of them we can’t even understand though we try.
I think I can’t say too much about every problem respecting these matters, but… in the 8-9 months I’ve been here the ones above are some I have note a lot of times, and maybe they can change in a near further future.. I don’t know…
Anyways I love my discipline, because I believe it can do a lot for people if people wants to, and also there’s a lot of things we should know about humans, as humans we are, and about culture.. and mostly about our past.. how do we get where we are it’s the hugest question we should try to resolve… and that’s the one that made me choose this degree =)