This semester was a little different of the first, so I really don't have a favorite subject, but I think that the best it's archaeology II. Especially the topics about ideology and differents focus on the archaeology theory. The contents that we learnt, was about the main theories on archaeology. For example, symbolic archaeology, archaelogy of power, cognitive archaeology, and social archaeology of latinoamerica. I enjoyed the relations with some problems in archaeology as how we can knew the thought of the past humans beings through material rests; or the debate about the concept of art and symbolism in others cultures differents than ours, and how overcome the disadvantages of not to count with writings fonts to rebuild the past.
Now in classes we will debate about the relation of archaeology and heritage, and the relations betwen the scientific knowledges and the historical memories of comunities about his past and present, a topic very interesting and neccessary in our context.
With this exception, we don't made some things different of other on our classes, it was just chair and powers points. But i really apprecciated the work on a personal essay, because it let me freedom to search about something new of what in regular classes we saw. It was a subject more critical and diverse in contents, in that sense i found t was one of the best of this last semester.
I liked more archeology the past semester (but I think it was by the teacher XD) But you're right , we saw very interesting topics wich are very important in our context. Maybe it would have become your favorite subject if teachers had used different dynamics to teach.
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