CHALLENGES IN YOUR DISCIPLINE

The most important challenge for the Social Anthropology is to be involved more in the relevants problems of our country. In a recent past, this discipline studied some aspects of our society, like the native people, the urban tribes, symbolic and aesthetics problems, and a lot of problems that mostly are irrelevant. I don't say that the study object are irrelevant, if not that the questions, the research problems are mostly unimportant for the people. For this, our discipline is so unknow for anybody, because it produce a lot of useless information.

Thus, the first challenge for the Social anthropology is involved more in the social matters. In the last time this situation has been changed, increasingly the anthropologist study important social matters like the human development, the social stratification and the social inequality, the social class, the urban segregation, the rural develpment, the ethnic conflict, for example. The cultural variable is an important factor that explain a lot of problems, and the anthropology have the tools for investigate this aspect of our society.

In relation of the methodological tools of the Anthropology, arise the need of incorporate new technology for increase our understanding of our reality. The use of new software improve the cualitative and cuantitative methods, because this allow manage a lot of data. Software like SPSS, Atlas-Ti, ArcView, and other programs allow make and organize big databases. Of course, the mighty Internet enhace any scientific discipline.

Finally, and maybe the most big debt of our discipline is about the education. The difussion of the knowledge inside our society is very deficient, Anthropology has been produce a lot of information that the ordinary people have never heard in their life.

The way for solve this challenges need to be discussed by the academic community, but the most important is that we the anthropologyst focus our daily effort for build a best society contributing with the knowledge about our own culture.