Anthropology and Money

Today I must write about anthropology and money, a difficult subject because when you think of anthropology, you can´t think in a lot of money, at least in my country.

About the question “what is more important anthropology or money?” to me is more important the money, because I didn´t choose to study anthropology, I chose to study archaeology, so I don´t care about anthropology at all and I think money is necessary to live, you like it or not. If you ask me about archaeology, my answer will be the same, because for me archaeology is like a hobby, I really like archaeology but if I want a house and a family I´m going to need money not pieces of ceramic or ancient bones.

In this country I think you can´t make a lot of money being an anthropologist (or an archaeologist) because it is not a necessary job in this society, it is more important to be an engineer, a lawyer, a businessman or things like that. By being an anthropologist you can make a little bit of money, but you won´t be rich.

When I chose to study archaeology I wasn´t thinking about money, but I wasn´t thinking about social science either, I was thinking about science, real science, a scientific job, I wasn´t thinking about social “science”, because for me, social science is not a science at all. Now I realize that everything in this faculty is “social” and I really hate that, I would like archaeology to be more scientific and less social, but in this faculty there is a lack of scientific things.

Finally, about the last question of the assignment, I must say that I still depend on my parents to live and to study, but I make my own money teaching Kenpo in the gym of La Florida, people pay me for the classes and I have a lot of students (that is more money). Additionally I work hard every summer, this summer I will be working in an office as a quality manager to implement the ISO 9000:2000, I`m going to make a lot of money. It is really cool to make my own money because it gives me independence and I can buy things like clothes or shoes or save money to go on vacations. Last vacations were great because I had money to spend.