The material that serves as the basis for this reflection is a constituent part of the research carried out for my doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology, defended in July 2020 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, which was supervised by Professor Antonella Tassinari. The article intends to address the history of anthropology in Mozambique, focusing on the post-colonial context and on the trajectories of international anthropological training of Mozambican teachers and researchers. In methodological terms, the research was based on narrative interviews carried out with Mozambican anthropologists who, for the most part, work at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and the Pedagógica University (UP). In addition to the interviews, I also resorted to collaboration in teaching, as well as bibliographical and documentary research. In this article I will argue about the development of Anthropology in Mozambique, which reflects a complex and contradictory historical dynamics of the country, which it helped to build and was also constituted by it. In this context, it is possible to identify at least four generations of female anthropologists in Mozambique: 1) the first generation, from independence or the generation of trainers' trainers; 2) the second, intermediate or democratic opening generation; 3) the third generation of the Unit for Training and Research in Social Sciences – UFICS and 4) the fourth and last generation of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences – FLCS. All these generations benefited from an international anthropological training. In this article, the idea is to explore, above all, this last component related to the international anthropological training of Mozambican teachers and its reflection in the way of teaching, researching and training new generations of anthropologists in Mozambique, in a search for dialogue with the proposal of this panel.
