BETWEEN PRIVILEGES AND DIFFICULTIES,

AN ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REPORT

Authors

  • Marisol Goia UFRJ

Abstract

In this autobiographical report, I discuss the origins, paths, background, and circumstances that made becoming a university professor easier and harder. I intend to provoke reflections on the teaching identity, illuminating under-explored dimensions about anthropologists, such as material and economic situations and socio-cultural and ethical-moral aspects. Considering that diverse types of learning occur while “acquiring” a professional identity, I reconstruct the backstage of my professional training and incorporation, guided by a Bourdieusian point of view concerning my capitals and privileges, and also include my difficulties and limitations. Ethical dilemmas involving anthropological identity are also discussed based on my work in the business sector. This essay articulates “subjectivities” and “reflexivity” to “culture” and “structure”, seeking to sew the relationship between “individual and society.”

KEYWORDS: Autobiography. University Teaching Career. Anthropological Identity. Higher Education.

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Published

2024-08-30

Issue

Section

Anthropologies of Teaching and Learning