feelandcanbefreedom

Mark Pagel addresses a theory that can be very usual for many disciplines because the origin of language is important to understand the world and his evolution and understand the society and its behavior. I think that the language possesses the power to change reality, because express a conception of the world and, more specific, contain the culture of people. I agree with says that the language is a very important tool, because society evolved for that, but I think that saying that language separates us is a conception decouple from context, it's true, the language separate us but gave us an impressive cultural wealth and the opportunity to know a different cultures, think in a one world with one language is a form to homogenize a vision of world and it's practically impossible. For example, as Chilean, we have a particular language and a way to express that identify us, and for that, the people can visit us and live the experience of Chilean language could do a descripti...

Background:  The history of Chile is usually made according with the oficial history, relation with the processes that can not be connected with the reality of most of people.  In general, we can say that the history of subaltern class is very invisible. In the last years after the dictatorship and the return to democracy, the importance of the new social history in Chile has knew rescue stories of these classes.  The connection with the anthropology has related with the problematic of etnohistory, because this discipline tries to study the history of "others" in the construction of identity and the cultural concepts applied to various researchs. The etnohistory works with the archives and the etnography researchs. Problem:  Even if the etnohistory is a discipline that can belongs to anthropology or history, in its context try to explain a story that we (in the most of cases) don't know, because in our educational system not learn about it. In the e...