Herramientas

Anthropological research is like the realization of a journey that, starting from reality, will make us return to it, but to be able to look at it with different eyes, with an enriched knowledge, different from the one we had when we started it. Anthropology owes much of what it is now, not so much to the anthropologists themselves, but to many early travelers, who have left us the traces of their itineraries through history and culture, who have been true precursors in the journey through the world of meaning, such as Herodotus, who is considered the father of history, but also as the father of anthropology, because in his seven classic books on ancient history, he makes detailed descriptions, which today we call "ethnographic", in which he shows us the existence of other worlds of life, which were inhabited by diverse and different cultures. These travelers have also taught us that every journey is charged with a certain transforming magic, since our view of reality, but above all, of ourselves, can no longer be the same after this journey; The experiences we have lived, what we have observed, what we have listened to, what we have felt, talked, shared and learned, in short, what we have lived, are so intense that it is necessary to find resources to deepen the learning that these trips leave us, so that what we have lived is preserved in our memory, and in this way, so that we do not forget. That is why all travelers who have wanted to leave traces of their journey through the journey of life, have always kept a logbook, a diary in which they have written down everything they have been living, feeling, discovering, learning.