If an alien civilization ever
decided to study humans,
the most logical way to do
so would be to infiltrate
one of our communities
and have their agents analyze
our behavioral guidelines and
hidden codes over a long period
of time. It would be a fascinating
job of observation — almost like
being the perfect foreign
correspondent.
There is a lot of all that in the
research of anthropologist
Cristina Sánchez-Carretero.
This native of Talavera de la
Reina (Toledo) in her early
forties says that a
good ethnologist must learn to
listen before acting and above all
to empathize with other people.
In other words, one must shed
personal prejudice and feel what
the others are feeling.
Growing up, she used to love
telling stories. Later, she began
to listen to them instead. “I was
fascinated by the ethnographer’s
working method; it’s a way
to understand from within the reality
around me,” she says. After
moving to Galicia with
her family,
she later lived in the United
States for almost five years,
getting a doctorate at Pennsylvania
University and working as a
teaching assistant there.
“The difference between
your kind of research and ours
is the time and
undiluted dedication we devote
to a specific issue,” she tells this
reporter.
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SOURCE: http://www.elpais.com/misc/herald/herald.pdf
BY CRISTINA SANCHEZ-CARRETERO, ANTHROPOLOGIST.
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