A Young Anthropologist's Notebook

I was born in 1993 so, for me, the idea of a divided Europe is quite foreign. I was born in a world  with a unified Germany, a fallen Berlin wall, a divided Czechoslovakia, and with Jugoslavia and the whole Balkans on the edge of a terrible war of which I don't have any memory, even though it happened when I first started walking and talking. Despite this, in my memory Europe has always been a peaceful, borderless place - even though it not always was for everybody, of course.  Yet, when we think of all these historical events listed above, they look as far in time as, say, the man landing on the moon, whereas the 9/11 terrorist attacks seem to be much closer in time despite only being three or four years apart from other historical events of this kind. Without getting into a much more complicated debate, which is the post-9/11 world and the effects it had on Europe too, my point is: the past twenty five years have defined an idea of Europe that has never been seen before...

If I remember correctly, I opened this blog in January 2017. At the time I was a young, hopeful anthropology student who thought she had something to say about her field of studies... …but I didn't (and I still don't). So I moved on to the next idea: what about a commentary blog on TV shows from an anthropological point of view? As it turns out, this would require a long amount of time - not time devoted to watch TV shows, which is something I do religiously and with a little bit of demonic addiction, but time devoted to studying actual theories that I could link to the shows I would like to comment. Well, I realized I really don't like studying. At least not in an academically accepted way. You can imagine how fun it was to write my master's thesis. So here's what I was doing in January 2017. In the meanwhile, since January 2017 I have travelled a bit, visited the Maldives, had a lazy vacation in Puglia, moved to Portugal, somehow survived a Win...