My favourite Anthropological website

Hi!

All the people have a favourite website, and tis can be of differents thems. I'm interested in urbans and economics themes. For example: social segregation, poverty, delincuency, etc. Then, I usually visit a chilean website very interesting: Institute for Housing and Urbanism (In Spanish: Insituto de Vivienda y Urbanismo-INVI). The INVI belongs to the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile.

The link of this website is http://invi.uchilefau.cl/ In it you can find a lot of articles, books, and journals. This are write for very important academics, some of them internationally recognized.

In addition, subjects are treated from a policy position on the left. That's why it is very sensitive to the different suffering of the poorest in the country.

I find the site two years ago, while searched information in the web on urbans themes. I visit the website twice a week for see the new articles and news.

Bye

Economic Depression

The crisis in development around the world is no small thing, this is the worst since the Great Depression of the 30'sy years has already caused bankruptcies of large banks and companies and millions of unemployed. In our country, and throughout Latin America, the impact will be (and is) far-reaching, because the economic growth of recent years in the region was supported by the significant increase in demand and prices of raw materials for industrial production in developed countries and China, but this is the cycle that breaks down, as U.S. and major countries of Europe have fallen into recession (stagnation and protracted decline of industrial and economic activity in general) and the China economy shrinks rapidly.

The current economic crisis is shaking the myths about the virtues of "free market" that provided the ideological basis for the neoliberal offensive of the last 40 years. Those who had announced the "end of history" and the final triumph of the capitalist system today intended to terrorize the population, which opposes bail out the billionaires on Wall Street, saying that if they are not all rescues are going to suffer consequences.

As in previous crises, the financial elite and the U.S. capitalist state, like their peers in the European Union and Latin America are attempting to impose a policy that involves a transfer of resources from society, the work product of millions of people toward the wealthier segments, which have grown immensely during the wealth boom of neoliberalism.

Today in Chile, unemployment reached 12,8 per cent in Santiago in March 2009, according to a study by the Faculty of Economics, University of Chile, which represents an increase of four points (in percentage) compared to 8,8 per cent in March 2008. This is the worst level since September 2003 and represents 363,900 people out of work. Economists say in the various newspapers and magazines, despite the anti-government, unemployment in Santiago could reach 15 percent in winter.

The MP3 Player: my favourite piece of technology

The mp3 player is my favourite piece of technology because allows do a lot of things, for example, store documents and transfer them anywhere, listen to music, moreover it's very small and easy to carry. I use it all the time, every day, because I do the works of research in my home, and print it in the university, and transport it on my mp3. This is great because if don't exist a means of transport of information, i would required to print documents in the computer where i write it. I also took classes to record mp3 from college. Moreover, if you can't take any notes during class, you can hear them in your home and complete it.

I had my first mp3 to fourteen years (I now have twenty one years). I don't remember as i get it, maybe my mother give it me. It was a great gift, because at that time it weren't very used ... whereas now everyone has an mp3 or mp4, it's a very necessary piece. The thing that I like more of the mp3 is that I can take it anywhere with me and listen to music. You can be in the beach, in the mountains, in the subway (while go to the university for example), in the bus, etc.. The life without music is very boring, the music can relax, have a good time. If i didn't have my mp3 my life don't could be the same. If I lose it, I will have to buy another right away because i need it very much.

Objectives...

Hi Dears:

I'm Niklas Dostoiewsky. I'm a english student of Social Anthropology on University of Chile.
I almost never write in english, but it's a work for the English class. I will try enjoy this work through the reflection, from a Social Sciences perspective, specifically from the Anthropology.
Then, I will reflect on social and economic themes, for example: Poverty, Economic Depression, Income Distribution, etc. The expectative for this blog i s write a weekly reflection.

Social Anthropology? What's That? For those who don´t know Social Anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. The discipline is not well known outside the area of social sciences, and then i hope to be able to show it.

Well, i will write more ...

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