Hi. My name is Chelsea. I am originally from around Detroit Michigan but currently find myself studying Anthropology in Louisville KY.
Posted by Magwa93 9 years, 1 month ago to The Gulch: Introductions
I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch because after five years of attending a public university I am seriously starting to loose all hope for the future of my generation. I have only met a handful of students that would consider themselves conservative and even they would blindly follow a "conservative" politician without a thought. I think Churchill's words sum up my view pretty nicely. "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." Also my background is Chemical Engineering which I almost completed my BA in before changing to Anthropology/Archaeology. (My passion is History and people, hence studying the human past) I found that after working in the field for three semesters that talking to the average engineer is about like trying to explain something to James Taggart.
If your prof tells you shamanism is fundamental to the tirbe then ask, "Does the tribe move or stay in one location?" If they move how do they decide where and when to move? Do they do it based on facts such as resource locations, soil depletion, warring tribes or do they ask the shaman? More successful tribes will move based on facts less successful, competitive, will move on visions. Ask about the structure of a tribe around the person who knows how. In fishing villages there is usually one person who knows how to fish and where the fish are better than the others. See the role of that person versus the shaman. Sociologists study the shaman not the producer even though the tribe will depend on the producer.
Rand will show you why the teacher prefers the shaman and why the tribe depends on the producer. I've studied this in fishing villages off the coast of Maine and its fertile ground for research without challenging the profs directly.
Learn to argue by logic and without being personal. School is more peaceful that way.
Just some advice from one who has been through it all. Best to your future
Churchill was brilliant in getting to the heart of human nature. Sadly, we lack the sort of fortitude and uncompromising principles in the current herd of politicos. And those that do step forth are too easily shot down by an elitist, sycophantic media who for some reason glorify the craven, mediocre, and basest of humanity.
You should find the opposite here.
NMA
I tried to take an anthropology course once but bailed because the information I was expected to know was, rather, opinion - and mostly the same.
I am also looking forward to your posts - I hope you enjoy yourself here.
WW