Francisco the firefighter

There in the picture of the left, is a firefighter called Francisco, he is the earliest son of a 9 child family, which lives near of Santiago Chile. Because of his big family, Francisco had to went for the attention of his neighbour Pepe, who was a voluntary fire fighter (in Chile the fire fighters are all voluntaries, they don't get a salary for the job). Because of the influence of Pepe, Francisco enrolled to the firefighters of his town when he was 18 years old. Francisco loves to be a firefighter because anytime he extinguish fire and save the life of a person, he think that is saving all the world, specially because he don’t get a salary.

This picture was taken in October of 2011, when Francisco was getting ready for going to collect money in the street, to buy new coats and helmets for the summer. He is on the headquarters of the firefighter in his town, where they hold equipment like for example helmets, coats, hoses, cars, etc. His new helmet is under his arm, he is happy because they had get a lot of money in this month.

Pulp Fiction

This movie is about people related with crime at EEUU, so all the time is showing violence scenes and use of drugs, I like it. 

Vincent, is a man who works for an important gangster Marsellus Wallace, with his colleague Jules, they have the mission of bring a mysterious briefcase to his dangerous boss. But they get in problems during their job, for example when Vincent shot in the face of a guy, and they got to clean the entire car before continuing the journey. Butch is another important character; he is a boxer who gets in problems after winning a fight, because a Marcellus had bound him to lose.

I love this movie, because the first time I saw it, I didn't catch the connection between the scenes almost the movie was finished, so at the final minutes of the film, I get impressed connecting all the scenes to understand the plot, this effect is successfully done. I also like the soundtrack and the cast, think the music creates a good atmosphere, and the actors make a good job.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lèvi-Strauss was one of the most influential French ethnologist and anthropologist of the 20th century, and the center of the school of structuralist thinking. His thoughts have consequences on the sociology, anthropology, and the social sciences in general.

He was born in Belgium at 1908, but all his childhood passed in Paris. Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy in La Sorbonne, but after a while dropped law. In 1935, he and his wife went to Brazil, to study the natives cultures and as a visitor professor of sociology. At the second world war, he had to live in New York, where met Jakobson, and get a lot of  influence of linguistics methodology. He died 100 years old, in 2009.

One of the most important influences of Levi-Strauss, is about the way to study the "primitive" cultures, by this way, he contributed in the figth against the etnocentrism. Other influence is the use of the phonology in the social sciences as an methodological tool.

I think that the job of Levi-Strauss is incomparable, because of that, much people says  he is the most important social scientist of the XX century, in some ways I agree with that people. Althought his proposals can be in discussion, it's undeniable that are very useful for we, the beginners in the social sciences, also I think his writings are very fun, I enjoy a lot reading them.

Nostalgia de la luz

"Nostalgia de la luz" is an amazing drama film elaborated in 2010 by the famous Chilean documentarist Patricio Guzmán. The film shows different perspectives about the past, that get together in the desert of Atacama, the perspective of an archaeologist, that searchs remains of ancient cultures; the perspective of the family women of disappeared people in the Pinochet dictatorship, that are yet searching for their familiar corpses in the vast desert; and the perspective of an astronomer, that use the clear sky for the study of the stars.

I watched this film one week ago, and i think that the most important thing is the mixture presented between the wounds of the recent history, antropology, astronomy, politics, and all it showed in testimony of witnesses and experts. I found very interesant the idea of join parts of the reality that appears to be unrelated, but actually are very similar. I think the most emotional part of the film is the testimony of the women wish searches for their familiars.

I highly recommend this film.