Teaching Portfolio, Teaching Fellowship Preparation, University of Oxford

In the second half of the 20th century, the field of cultural and social Anthropology was profoundly influenced by postcolonial and postmodern critique, which challenged the power relations present both in fieldwork practice and in ethnographic writing. The result of this process was the development of a reflective discipline, from which scholars value intersubjectivity and become aware of their own historical and political positionality vis-a-vis the people of their studies (Clifford, 1988). Likewise, teaching practice is concomitantly an encounter of subjectivities and a power relation. It means that the reflection of an anthropologist should not be restricted to the fieldwork and writing, but extend to the classroom.