José Guarello

 Since the pandemic began, I have seen very few people who do not live with me or who are not a close relative, and only on specific occasions. Yesterday for the first time in over a year I was able to meet my best friend. In addition, we also met with others whom I only saw on only one occasion in all this time. I really missed them a lot and being able to see them again has been, without a doubt, one of the best days I have had in quite some time. We laughed a lot remembering multiple stories and although we did not talk about anything very deep or about any topic that could be considered more relevant, I was really happy to be able to hear his laughter again near me. Unfortunately, the meeting had to be very limited due to the curfew time, but we took advantage of every minute to join us as we always had. In the midst of some complicated weeks, both due to the context and the sum of so many factors such as the accumulation of evaluations in the coming days, the joy that I experi...

I study anthropology with a specialty in social anthropology. This branch of the discipline studies, according to the most common and accepted classifications, the various cultures that have existed and exist to this day in the human race along with their widely varied characteristics, always trying to answer the question of how a certain group human lives in a certain sociocultural phenomenon in a specific context? This emerged as a form of colonizing study by the imperialist powers of the nineteenth century but, fortunately, with the passage of time different theoretical, methodological and action approaches emerged that have allowed the possibility of developing critical perspectives with the potential capacity to intervene in the reality of human groups. Although this is not a positive aspect by itself, since it can also be used for unethical purposes, it is also true that a large number of anthropologists use their knowledge to help certain groups to make certain problems visible ...

  It was february of 2020, just a couple weeks before that the COVID pandemia arrives to our country. I toured around the south of Chile, specifically cities like Valdivia, Frutillar and a lot of places of the island Chiloé as Achao, Curaco de Vélez or a beautiful and lonely beach named Duhatao. It was a backpacking and autostop travel with four friends: Octavio, Pascual, Gina and Renzo. We were traveling for around three or four weeks with a lot of of laughs, wonderful landscapes, kind unknown people and expreriences. In facts, it was a simple travel, without defined plans but it allowed a relaxed journey. We did very much things, like visit lonely beaches, meet meraviglius people like Armando and Juana (a couple of Ancud that invited us to spend the night at their house and they prepared delicious food for us), walk into the forests of Chiloé, and play the guitar and sing all the nigths over the gorgeus starry sky of the south. All of this small and things were the...