Formal Letter

July 8,   2012

Professor Renato Rosaldo
Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies at NYU
University of New York
New York, NY

Dear Professor Rosaldo,

I’ve been following your work in the last 5 years and I’ m really impressed by your critics and point of view about anthropology and ethnology.

I think your book Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis illustrates the real need to understand the other in his context. Nobody is able to describe the other’s experience if he tries to enunciate his story with his prejudices. Also, with your work I think it’s open a new door to read the anthropology studies.

As a student of the female Chicana literature, I consider that culture is a big problem that sometimes anybody wants to think about. In my view, culture is fundamental to answer a lot of questions which arise while you read the text. Even a text  will never be something alone without questions to answer.

Therefore, I would like to apply for your summer program, because I’m really interested to know and participate in your actual  research and discussions. Moreover, the summer program would enrich my own research so it’d be really important to my thesis project.

Sincerely,

Laura Lezama