poetaguerrera

yup first generation and low income too here.

yeah..definitely overwhelmed wondering if i will succeed... use affirmations..seems cheesy but it helps.

yeah ive been out of school for 2 yrs...definitely feeling rusty. lol i dont know how i am going to get myself to read dense anthropological material when lately i read kid's stories to keep myself from feeling anxious. lol i have been reading philosophy but thats nowhere near the extent of dense theories. ahhh

I'll be attending Rutgers for the Anthropology PhD

i applied to 14 schools and i used project 1000 for 7 of them. you should check out IRT and other programs that help you apply for graduate school. they might be of great help to you.. i beleive the IRT deadline is coming up soon. go to https://www.applyweb.com/public/newuser.pl?s=andirt

sorry to hear that, too. i was accepted but with no funding at all, so i had to say no. =/ it was originally my first choice, but i know a lot of students at the center and they struggle to make it. many are working multiple jobs and teaching courses and barely taking full-time credits.

Rutgers University CITE. Originally I had accepted at the CUNY Grad Center, but they didn't offer me any funding. They told me they might be able to, but they weren't sure. Yesterday, I received an email from Rutgers offering me funding for 5 years - 2 of fellowship and 3 of TAing, so I went with them.

Hey...so it's decision day... Any one else been having panic attacks, freaking out, feeling anxious and confused, and general unwellness lately? These past 2 months have been so hellish..Little to no sleep...and no that I've made my choice...I'm still feeling like "did i pick the right program?" ahhh anyone else going crazy?

so ford is announcing too? ugh..i havent heard from them...i wonder...=/

nsf is a no go for me =/

someone told me that NSF is most concerned with high GPAs and GREs...not sure if this is true..

ugh..i feel you guys. i got funding from everyone except my top choice =/

Ethnography and Prostitution In Peru by Lorraine Nencel.

Like everyone else here said, anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that studies various aspects of culture (that is, how people exist/what they do/how they do it/why they do it, etc). Every discipline can be broken down into further disciplines and many of them cross bridges with non-anthropological and even non-social science disciplines. The 4 main subfields are cultural, biological/physical, archeological and linguistic. I study cultural anthropology, but I started off as an archaeology major also interested in primates (biological) and languages. I guess, I'm like the poster-child for anthropology. For me, it's a discipline that allows me to exercise my short-attention span because one day I can study epidemiology, then a year later look into social movements, and still wonder about code-switching or even what primate tool usage means for us. You can further break down anthropology into environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, political anthropology, and other things. This is why I love it as a discipline as I stated above. Now to answer your other question. What does an anthropologist do? Well-- our lives primarily revolve around research and deconstruction of past ideas and reconstruction of them as well. Anthropologists are interested in not only what people did but why they did it and how it impacts our life experiences and what does that mean for the future. It's a sister discipline to sociology and history. Now, unless you plan on being a researcher or a professor, it almost makes no sense to pursue a PhD. Most anthropologists spend their time doing research about various subjects/ places/ eras. Many are professors. Others work for different companies doing various types of research--even consumer marketing. Ever wonder how advertisers know how to market to a tribe in the middle of Zimbabwe? I call these corporate anthropologists, and admittedly not my favorite of anthropologists. I think anthropologists generally tend to be "leftist" thinkers because we come in contact with the most difficult aspects of society often visiting "third world" countries and places that have been destroyed by imperialists and colonialism. As a discipline anthropology has done a lot of deconstructing and restructuring of its theories and methodologies. The first anthropologists like Lewis Henry Morgan were racists hired by people who used the discipline to validate their claims to colonialism and the subjugation of peoples. But that's another story. I, personally, don't study "the other." My research is based on my own community and understanding the social movements led by them. Many anthropologists, however, do study other cultures that they are unfamiliar with. I like to problematize this. I could write a novel. So in summation-- anthropologists are mostly researchers and professors. In the following fields, you'll be likely to see some of these things being studied: Archaeology : the mayan ruins - understanding 2012; pyramids in egypt..digs baby lots of digs. environmental anthropology: the effect of love canal on the people that lived near by linguistic anthropology: how 1st generation american born koreans use code-switching to communicate with their parents and peers; the development of sign language in nicaraguan deaf children without education biological anthropology: think early jane goodall; studying chimpanzee tool usage; studying human genetic development and adaptation to environments medical anthropology: understanding how menopause is perceived cross-culturally and last but not least: socio-cultural: doing ethnographic research in New Orleans to see how victims of Hurricane Katrina's lives have been affected; studying prostitution in Lima Peru; studying religious rituals in a tribe; researching concepts of gift-giving; kinship relationships..I could go on and on..hah Hope this clarifies things for anyone who reads it.

yeah..i was accepted like a week and a half ago. they notify late coz of their january intersession.

wow im so sorry to hear that.

i'm a performance poet as well. that's my stage name. haha i used to want to do bio-anthro...but i missed the boat...didnt take enouggh bio classes and in order to do it, i was going to have to do a post-bac in bio/sciences...i thought maybe my destiny was to go ahead and pursue cultural anthro since it obviously came so naturally to me..

it's kind of a double-edged sword....having choices...im afraid i'll pick the wrong one =/

i contacted professors at every department i applied to..visited some, emailed some, and called some...

its tough to negotiate funds these days. a lot of programs have limited funding.

ugh this is killing me. i need funding to go to my top choice. =/

i got into the anthro phd at maxwell...got my funding decision last week..still trying to decide.

lmao...i love this..and i think all the big jewelry tends to be tribal/native items collected during fieldwork..i have a few pieces but i hate wearing jewelry..and lets not forget the women wearing french braids. haha

yes it's so true. all anthro ppl are certainly weirdos. lol myself included of course.

lmao..fleeing the country has definite been my plan B. haha