My Favorite Anthropology: Marvin Harris

He was a American`s anthropology. He was born at 18 of august in 1927 in Brooklyn and die at 25 of October of 2001 in Gainesville. He was studied in Columbia and he was teacher in the Columbia University and Florida University. He was applied the cultural materialism at the anthropology.

He is important because applied the materialist theory of Marx at the anthropological theory. He meets in his theory to greats authors as: Malthus, Kroeber, Steward and White, creating so a theory of the human development that implies a material dimension and symbolic dimension.
He defines the socio-cultural reality in three levels:
· Infrastructure (the elements in the society that not visible, but was very important for this society)
· Structure (institution and material elements)
· Superstructure (ideological levels, it`s explains with natural the social and cultural reality)

He defines two concepts very important in anthropology, overcoat in ethnography: emic and etic. The emic dimension is the explanation that the community considered valid on their actions. The etic dimension is the scientific explanation that an outside overlooks such acts.

My Experience of the Earthquake.

For the earthquake I was Chiloé. I was my vacation end with my boyfriend and that night we are in a camping in Achao. This night we were parting with people of the camping and we were recently sleep. We thought it was the volcano Chaiten was erupccion, because in this date, the volcano was activity. But then we realized was an earthquake.

As Chiloe was very far from the epicenter I don`t feels the moving with feel here in Santiago, because was very slowly, but I was very scared, because there was no communication for 3 days, and the parents of my boyfriend were Chillan, It`s very close of epicenter and the communication with the zone was impossible.

For the preoccupation for the parents of my boyfriend we has return of the vacations 3 days before, and I don`t know Cucao.

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in this site you can see many things about me.
I´m a student of Anthropology of secound years at Universidad de Chile.
I´m from near Puerto Montt, I live in a farm with my parents, but for my studies I live in Santiago now.
I like the animals, I have a dog and cat, but I´m not from Santiago theys are in the country in Puerto Montt.
I like travelling too, especially the mountain and the nature. I love the forest of the south.