An evaluation of your blogging experience

    Participating in a blogging activity was very relaxing and something new for me. I'm very shy and hate to participate in class, adding that I'm terrible speaking in English. It was almost a sigh of relief to be able to manage activities that did not involve talking. 

    It would not include anything else in the future. Our teacher made us develop entertaining blogs, of more subjective and personal things. It was more of a relaxation activity than a horrible task. I would like to write about movies or favorite series, to be able to include some recommended by my colleagues in my "to see" list!

A subject you have enjoyed studying this year

During this semester I have fallen totally in love with the course "Cazadores recolectores", especially the subject associated with shamanism and all the artistic expressions that these groups develop around their religiosity.

Mainly, our professor Diego Artigas, took us into this research through various mandatory texts of the field, being my favorite "Chamanismo en la prehistora" by Clottes and Lewis-Williams. For personal research, around his relationship with art, one of my favorite texts has been “El arte corporal Selk’nam y su carácter iconográfico" by Flores and Correa, which we used with my partner in an activity evaluated.

Both texts delve into both body art and cave art (of caves) associating it with their cosmology and mythology. How they represent their connection and communication, generated through various initiation rites and rituals, with the spirits of their ancestors, representing them in trace on cave walls or personifying their spiritual figures through body art and dances. The theme of symbolism projected by this art and the cosmic world that each cultural group perceives is a vast and very interesting world, bringing together mythology and art, subjects that I am too passionate about, in a composite whole.