Blog 5: Changes to my study program

Hi everyone, I really don’t have much to say about possible changes that I would like the anthropology program to have, because in 2019 was a change of curriculum. For the same reason, I cannot contribute much to the discussion, since to see the real impact, it has for the formation of the career must spend more generations. 

But I do believe that changes should be made to the faculty facilities. Because, in The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile has an important collection of bioanthropological and archaeological material, which comprises a universe that exceeds 2,400 boxes or containers with skeletonized and naturally mummified remains, complete and/or fragmentary, representative of pre-Hispanic and subactual populations of our nation, which have been obtained in different contexts

However, the Department of Anthropology and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile, currently do not have the capacity, spaces, and conditions, to host large volumes of collections, but requests to deliver archaeological collections continue to be received. What leads to the failure of the storage conditions of the management of collections, a mismanagement of collections, can lead to the total damage or loss of one or more collections, even it could be irretrievable, losing the cultural value of said collection.

It is a fact that depository facilities have serious problems meeting conservation criteria, so I think the university should give more resources to the anthropology department to keep collections safe and receive new ones.