Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A website


A very relevant problem in the Archaeology is the critique of some people that think that that this science doesn’t care about the problems of modern society, or rather, many people think that archaeologists dont care what happens in today's world, and they only care about bits of stones and everything else is unimportant.
But in my opinion this is a wrong thought , and I found a great website that reflects this.
Archaeology in the Present (http://arqpoli.blogspot.com/ ) is a blog in which different Chilean archeologists published
issues that may be related to social, economic and political process and how these topics are relate to the archeology.
For example, we find analysis of laws that directly affect archeology as the National Monuments Act, topics of discussion as the representative in the Political ideologies or advertising stereotypes .
Although it is of great national importance, the post that most touched me was the post wrote by Professor Luis Cornejo ( professor in our university) about a zombie parade that took place in Santiago (costume of course).
I loved as a “daily situation" can appear in the middle of a serious blog in a way so simple, ironic and analytical in the same time. I was moved thinking how will I see the world in a few years, through to the same archaeological look.
and how the remains of the past be projected in my mind even to this small daily events.
I found this website while building my own website! it was a homework in a course called "a website for my career", and I needed to have links to sites related to my topic. Since that day I visit often, and I read the entries several times and always discover something new in them.

1 comment:

  1. That is a good example that why archaeology is a social science..

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