Anthropology of the university time in Hispanic and Portuguese-language studies

Abstract. This article analyzes how approaches and methods of the anthropology of time are applied to the Iberian and Latin-American university studies. Though Hispanic scholars interpreted and discussed European and North-American works on the anthropology of time, they came to the analysis of temporal structures and age rates in academic life basing on regional and national traditions of university studies. The article observes both peculiarity of approaches in various research centers (e. g. Spanish research group «History of culture and universities Alfonso IX» and Mexican Institute of university and education studies) and problems of discipline organization in research (i.e. separation of history of universities and history of education). The university time is studied in bound of various research guidelines, i. e. history of symbolic spatial and temporal categories, history of everyday practices and their regulation, history of rituals. Hispanic scholars analyze the problem of academic ages in prosopographical studies and in investigations dedicated to collective memory and gaps of continuity. Methods of the anthropology of time are also applied to the research of youth as a constructed subject of university social and political life.

Keywords: anthropology of time, university studies, history of Spain, history of Portugal, history of Latin America.