"La Tirana"

My plans for the winter break are to travel to the Tirana's Festival. This is a religious festival in honor of the Virgin of the Carmen that celebrates the 16th of July in the town of La Tirana, region of Tarapacá, Chile. 

In the festival can enjoy the dances, the colors, the disguises, the rites and above all the wonderful music of the carnival. Among the dances that are carried out are the "Caporales", the "Diabladas", the "Morenadas" among others. Also the beautiful north of Chile can be known and all the traditions of that region.

I would like to go there because I love the carnival and the Andean music, and is a plan that has with my friends a long time ago. I dance in a carnival organization and interest me a lot of to be able to continue learning about the carnivals that exist in our country.

High possibilities exist than can go to the festival, only lacks to have a little more than money and desires to go and to pass it very very well, enjoying absolutely all.

Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu was a sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher. He was born in French in August 1st, 1930. His parents were a countrymen and Pierre was their only son. He studied Philosophy in the Upper teacher college os Paris. He went to investigative to Argelia, returning to Paris in 1960 as a result of the war in that country. He was a professor in the University of Paris, Doctor Honoris Causes of several universities and member of the European Academy of Arts and Scienses. He dies in January 23th, 2002.

He's work is dominated by a sociological analysis of the social hierarchies reproduction mechanisms. He was pioneer an investigative frameworks anda terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life. His more famous books are "The Heirs", "The Male Domination" and "The Misery of the World" amongs others.


I like Pierre Bourdeiu beacuse is a very interesting author and achieve to incorporate the relational, reflexive anda critic analysis to the study of the social scienses. Has been a great contribute to the day of today.