Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28, 1908. He was the father of structuralism and kinship studies in anthropology.
He studied law and philosophy in France. In 1935 he worked at the University of Sao Paolu Brazil until 1939. He conducted his first ethnographic work in the Amazon rainforest with the tribes of Mato Grosso. In this anthropological study, he published the famous book: "Tristes Tropiques" and "The Savage Mind."
He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. In this city, he met the linguist Roman Jakobson, whose work was fundamental to the evolution of his ideas of Kinship.

I like Levi-Strauss, because in his structural studies, he could establish the first law in the society: “Incest Taboo”. Also I like him, because he did the structuralist theory.

He returned to France after the Second World War. There he received awards as: the gold medal of Ethnology and the Viking Fund Award (1966), the gold medal at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (1967), the Erasmus Prize (1973) The Foundation Award Nonimar (1986) and the Legion of Honor (1996).
He died in Paris, on Friday, October 30, 2009, before the age of 101.

How to train your Dragon

The last movie I saw was “How to Train your Dragon”. This movie is 3D animation, and genre fantasy. This movie was based on the novel by Cressida Cowell, and the screenplay was William Davies.
The plot this movie is a hapless young Viking: Hiccup. He wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoick the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Hiccups enter the battle, and capture a dragon, but can't kill it. Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.

The cast in this movie were: Jay Baruchel (Hiccup voice) and Gerard Butler (Stoick voice).

I like this movie because is very much entertaining. I love the adventure movies like this. And 3D view is very impressive.

In the earthquake, I wasn’t in the zone affected, between VI and VIII regions. I was in the north of Chile: Arica, since fortunately was no dangerous, but this city always has been seismic, then I observed this fact like a natural thing.

My reaction in this event was of sadness, because many people died and others were missing. I impact by the force of nature and his extension of the zone.

I remember what I did after of the earthquake: I called my uncle and my friends in Santiago, but I didn’t have answer until the evening.

The lessons I learned after the earthquake were the poor preparation of the people for this event. In my city and the north coast we have signals, alarms and escape routes, but in the affected zone there were few. Apparently, we forgot we are a seismic country.

Anthropology Physical; Natural culture

Hello, My name is mario, I am student of anthropology at the university of Chile. I like anthropology because to relates art, social history and biology. In this discipline you can find many culture, travel and meet many people. I particulary like the physical anrthropology and invite all those interested in the crazy theory of evolution Darwin and lovers experiments in Drosophilas melanogasters!!!
For me it's great to experiment with those flies, I hope you like them too.
The picture is a representation of the genius of Darwin's theory of evolution. He says the monkey is the origin of man, and I believe him.