Between the Anthropologies of Brazil and Angola:

notes on a research path

Abstract

This text focuses on a part of my PhD research developed in Angola, at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Agostinho Neto University. I focus on the experiences lived there, as a black Brazilian anthropologist. There were many questions that emerged about the Anthropology of Brazil that built my training when approaching the Anthropology produced in Angola. In the relational game between being a Brazilian anthropologist and researching on Social Sciences in and from Angola, between places were presented, pointing out paths and constituting the contingencies of the research. The text is divided into four moments: leaving Brazil and arriving in Angola; then, I present a little of the path taken at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Anthropology course of this Faculty, and what this guaranteed, which ethnography was this, and how it was organized; later, I point out how I returned to Brazil, and I end up thinking about what possibilities can be thought for this journey that has not yet ended. I work with archived field material: recollections of the field diary, and some descriptions of the visited spaces, questions raised in the interlocutions and in the field routine. In this itinerary, it was necessary to think about the relationships between educational projections from Brazil towards Angola, projections that confer or not bridges of interlocution and dialogues for the Anthropologies of these countries.