Post 5: From politics to cooking

I would like to work in something related to my career. It’s not very accurate to say that I will work as an anthropologist, because it doesn’t say too much about it. I would like to know many places around the world and to write books or reports about my travels and to know different cultures and societies. Also, I would like to record on videotape my experience and to make documentaries to teach about anthropology and its ethical and methodological problems. But that is like a dream job, because I don’t know who is going to pay me for that. Travelling is expensive.

On the other hand, I would like to do a PhD in political anthropology. Political anthropology studies how do different cultures understand the social link between people. For example, countries in the world are organized by State and it controlled everything inside the country, however, they are cultures that do not follow this pattern, for example, there are cultures in Polynesia that are organized by giving and receiving gifts. This is very interesting because it teaches you that there are others kind of social organization and not only the Greek concept of politics.

If no one of them works, I’m very good at cooking and I can be a chef.