Gabriel Salazar

He was born in the city of Santiago in January 31st, 1936. He is a nationally prominent historian and although not precisely an anthropologist I believe that his research and books are a lot of help to our discipline.

Gabriel Salazar studied in the "Liceo de Aplicación" and went to the University of Chile for further studies of History, Philosophy and Sociology. In 1976 he was exiled from the country and was received in England, this country gave him a scolarship and he became Doctor in Economics and Social History in the Hull University. In 2006 won the National Prize for History in Chile.


Nowadays Salazar works as professor of 19th century Chilean History, Contemorary and Theory of History in the department of History Science in the University of Chile, and teaches the course of Social History in Chile in the law school, as well as in the Faculty of Social Science at the same university.


Salazar is a major contribution to chilean historiography, and he established the trend of New Social History that examines the popular subjects and the most significant facts in the lower classes, focusing on the displaced and the exploited masses of our society.

My Hobbies

Thinking back, I have always had hobbies in my life, they change according to my age and interests, some are maintained in time and others pass and become pretty memories. For example when I was young I liked to do necklaces and bracelets of beads, to ride on skates or to write scripts for plays of puppets that we carried out with my cousins and we presented to my familyin Christmas or special dates. Other acivities like reading, listening to music and watching movies I continue to do, inspite that in certain times of year I don´t have much time for them.

When I was 15 years old due to my interest in music I began studying violin and for 5 tears I learned many things of this discipline, I was in a youth orchestra during a year and we carried out diverse presentations. Upon entering to the university I had less time to dedicate in to the music and I had to leave it, but I know that this pause is momentary since further on I will take up again the studies in this instrument or in another. Nowadays I am learning Flamenco dance and I am very happy with my personal achievements as with the ones of the group.

The Earthquake

I sleeping in my house when the earthquake happen. Always when tremor happen my reaction is to keep calm and stay in the same place, but in this opportunity the tremor to make more and more strong, therefore I say my mom to get up of the bed (she stay in other room, for that reason I shout). When come to the hall we move a lot and I couldn´t to walk. Soon open the door and the wall in the garden fall, in this moment I understand it was an earthquake.

Later when the move stop I went a house of my aunt (she live in a house in front) and I ask if everything is fine. All my families there were good, but in this moment I think in my dad, he live in the old building in center of Santiago. Whit my mom to get in the car and go to the building and fortunately he is fine, a little bored by being alone, but fine.

In the weeks that continued whit my friends and cousins we help in the FECh, we go to supermarket and collecting food and hygiene articles to send to the affected zones.

* The picture is the garden of my house currently, before there was a wall.

Welcome!

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My name is Catalina Aguilera, I am 20 years old and I am in my second year of the Anthropology career.

I have called my blog "mi bici morada" because every day I go to university in a purple bicycle that I love and I travel to the rhythm that I want, for example there are days in which I want to go faster or others in which I want to ride at a slow pace. I listen to my favourite music or when it´s very early I listen to the news in the radio. I always try to go by the "ciclovias" that are on the road because the cars and buses always run, they are stressed and make very dangerous to go by the street. Going on bicycle allows me to save money and to move my body because I dont practice sports. I have the lucky to live very near the university and coming by bicycle, because I know a lot people that would like to come on bicycle but because of the distance they have to travel through they are not able, but given the possibility I would recommend to all the people to take their bicycle and use it every day!