Abstract
Written in honor of the anthropologist Simoni Guedes (1949-2019), this article reconstructs elements of the trajectory of an author who had a notable influence on the constitution of a field of research in the anthropology of sports in Brazil. First, this article makes known biographical data on her family origins and training in the Social Sciences at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), in the 1960s and 1970s - information that is little known, even among her students. Second, I discuss the importance of her academic training at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) of the National Museum of Brazil, from the 1970s to the 1990s, an institution where she obtained her MPhil and Ph.D. After traversing this intellectual path, I take a closer look at her first major publications on sports - “Subúrbio, celeiro de craques” - which was first published in 1982, in Universo do futebol, a seminal volume edited by Roberto DaMatta.
Keywords:
History of social sciences in Brazil; Anthropology of sport; Simoni Guedes’ trajectory