I started very recently to study anthropology, only this year , so I didn't know any important antropologist until the last week when a classmate told me about Pierre Clastres and then a teacher spoke about him in a class. He is a french antropologist and ethnographer ( although he studied philosophy ), who was interested about american antropology, under the influece of another famous antropologist, Levi Strauss.  He worked with comunities from Paraguay and Brasil, specially with guaranies  and he has a very important participation on the "French may".  His most famous publication is "The society against the government", in general he talk about the normal authonomy of the human be, so he thought, against the evolutionism, that the government is not the natural way that a population organized, or not necessarily. I found interesting his thought because he talk about the leaders of primitives societies that have prestiges, but they can't become this to power separated of the society because they have a debt with his people. I like very much this idea because is very different of the way that we live today, we live in a society that many time it seems that the people have a debt with their leaders, while it must be the opposite.

I really like music, I think this is one of the best invention ever! Usually a like "relax" music, and is important to me the rythm but also what the songs say. One of the my favorites singers is Jorge Drexler, he is from Uruguay and his music is like poetry, maybe I can called this "trova".
I like his music exactly for that, I really like the rythms that he use, I really feel his music, and also I like the lyrics, because he talk about simple things of life. A lot of his songs are my favourites, like "al otro lado del río" (because it appear in one of my favourites movies: "Diario de motocicletas" ) , "mi guitarra y vos" (because is the first that I listen of him) ,"la edad del cielo" and "noctiluca" (the last two because I like what they say and how it is said)
Because I really like his music, I have gone 3 times to see him in concerts (the last 3 years!) I think I'm a little big fan of his work!


Mi guitarra y vos- Jorge Drexler en festival Despierta  the video is from the last presentation I went!

My autobiography

My full name is María Alejandra Chávez Mallea, but everybody knows me as Ale. I was born on September 8^th, 1994, so now I am 18 years old. I was born in Santiago, Chile, and I have lived all my life in San Bernardo, in a little place called Nos, in a house that I love because I have a lot of trees and a lot of space that let me have three dogs, Snoopy, Luna and Almendra, they are pretty crazy, but I love them (I really love animals!!) .
I studied in the dowtown in a school called “Instituto Sagrado Corazón”, where all my siblings studied. Now I’m studing Anthropology at University of Chile and this is my first year.

In my family we are 6, my parents, Eduardo and Carmen, my two sisters, Mª Gabriela and Mª Belén , my brother, Eduardo, and me. I’m the youngest. 

I like to do a lot of things, sing and play the guitar, dance, draw, make handicraft with recycled materials (it supposed that i do this to sell but I'm the worst seller ever!!)  and plant in the garden. I love to travel and go for a walk outdoors!!