An expert I admire

Well, I would like to mention Lévi-Strauss. He was a French anthropologist who was born on 1908 and was deceased in 2009 (he lived more than a century!). He has made lots of essays about native americans and made a lots of theories that improved the anthropology. The main reason I "admire him" (I don't really believe that there is a reason why a human being should "admire" another human being, because we are all equal) is because reading what he has write I was able to solve the paradox between "be relativistic and because of that do not judge anything, neither in my society nor in another" and "be ethnocentric and be able to ask for changes in your own society". The answer is "to moderate the opinion". This solution is crucial if you ant to be a good anthropologist, because it let you to speak, think and theorise without fall in a contradiction. Also, Lévi-Strauss make me regain the good path to be a good professional, because i was becoming a bit altercentrist, and he explained in one text how to be neutral again.

Books... Just books...

My relationship with books is not very active lately. When i was a child i use to read a lot, but since i started the University i just read some chapters of different books (however, these "short" lectures appears to be a kind of "swarm" specifically designed to overwhelm me and my classmates; and that swarm is becoming a complete success).

I like fictional books of almost any kind. Since adventure books like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, to books of social criticism like "Cien Años de Soledad", satirist novels like "Rebelión en la Granja", distopian futures like "Un Mundo Feliz" or apocalyptic stories like World War Z.

I am reading World War Z. It is difficult to read daily because all the papers and articles that we have to read to the University, but i started it a month ago, and i think it will take another to finish it. It is about a zombie apocalypse which started in China and spread almost all over the world. The book tells in interviews the story of the infection, since the first cases, trough the Great Panic (when people realised the true nature of the "African rabies" and that the supposed cure was in fact useless) and the human counter attack. I enjoyed how all was so consistent, although i could detect some nationalism (the author is from USA), because in the book the Zionist were the "good guys" who were trying to protect Palestine from the infection, the USA´s soldiers were in other countries "fighting the drug trafficking" instead of occupying the country for USA´s interests, the infection begin in an enemy of USA and the refugees were praying to be able to enter Europe or USA to be safe, the interviewed people often says how USA is more democratic than his own country and how the CIA were trying to protect the people and democracy (that was very disgusting for me, knowing how the CIA help to replace Latin american democracies with dictatorships). I would recommend this book to any person who likes books about apocalypse (my friends like video games about zombies, but they are too lazy to read this book).