Marvin Harris, the Rockstar!

Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York at August 18, 1927. He was an American anthropologist.

He entered the U.S. Army toward the end of the Second World War and when came back entered to the Columbia University. There he studied anthropology. During his career, he was very influenced for the theories of Karl Marx and he combined the ideas of Thomas Malthus about the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system. With these two theories, Marvin Harris created the study methodology named Cultural Materialism. Basically, the Cultural Materialism says the media and the types of subsistence in a society determine to the social organization and the culture.

The best-known books are:
Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture (1985)
Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies (1987)
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (1975)
Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture (1982)

Harris died in Gainesville (Florida) on October 25, 2001.

I like Marvin Harris because he can explain anything aspect of the culture, like the love of the cow in the India, just through the modes of production of his subsistence.

The last movie I Saw

The last movie I saw was “The Hurt Lockers”, a movie based in a written from Mark Boal, a freelance journalist. In this movie we can see the life of the soldiers on Iraq War, specifically of the bomb squad deactivators .

The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and his protagonist is Jeremy Renner like the Sergeant First Class William James, Anthony Mackie like the Sargeant JT Sanborn and Brian Geraghty like the especialist Owen Eldridge.

The film begins with the death of the charge of defusing bombs, which is replaced by risky Sergeant William James.

The film shows us the adrenaline that causes the Sergeant William James to risk his life when deactivating bombs. Such an increase in adrenaline cause an addiction in the sergeant who you do run many risks, and ultimately leads him to return again and again to Iraq for defusing bombs.

I like this movie, because have good action and suspense scenes. Perhaps, the 131 minuts to be much, but is very interesant. And the actuation is very impressive.

"The Hurt Locker" is a good Film.

My Earthquake Experience

On February 27, 2010; I was in "El Tabo", a beach to the west of the capital of Chile. That day I had just arrived from Santiago with two friends and we had spent the day organizing our things and knowing the place.

We were sleeping, but Francisco, one of the group, woke up quickly and shouted very strongly "EARTHQUAKE!!!". The rest of us woke up. This was the beginning of the Earthquake for me.

We went out of the house and we stayed there all the night with a bonfire. In the morning, we spoke on the phone with our families and we learned what had happened: an Earthquake.

The following Monday, we came back to the Santiago.

Now, I just remember the uncertainty.

This is my experience in the earthquake.

Welcome All!!

Hello, my name is Victor Mendez Muñoz, I am 19 years old. I am student of anthropology in the University Of Chile and I am in the second year.

This blog will be used for the English III Class. I want writte a lot of post and receive many comments.

In this blog, I write about various topics that I hope will be of your complete satisfaction.

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