This semester I've enjoyed a theoretical subject called "Anthropology and history". We have class every Thursday for one hour and a half. In class the teacher talk us about the relationship between anthropology, history and literature, every class he explain a book and puts it in a larger context, linking it to other authors, perspectives, theoretical fields, etc. One of the things that I like most about the class is when the professor talks to us about his experience studying the history of the whalers in the south of our country, he gets very excited and that is why the students have named this branch for years as "whales." He is also a very adorable man, is very flexible about our times and does not exploit us academically.
In past classes, we have passed the relationship between anthropology and history through time, the ethnography of the past, microhistory, ethnographic narrative, among other topics. Something I specially enjoy about are the readings we have class to class. I also have to admit that one of the things I like about this class is that there is a very relaxed atmosphere.
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