Abstract

REY PINTO, Eva María. In the waters of distinction: imaginaries of prestige in the Colombian Navy. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.35, pp.625-642.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 1900-6586.  https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.783.

This article is framed within Military Anthropology. Its main research objective is to explore the imaginaries surrounding prestige. Based on how prestige is constructed in the institution's officiality, it explores its relationship with social class in the Colombian Navy. Through an ethnographic approach based on the construction of life stories of male and female officers who joined between 1971 and 2001 and guided by the categories of prestige, elite, and distinction, it evidences the origin of a distinction imaginary based on social class. This differentiates it from the other Military Forces. It also reveals an existing transit towards a distinction based on the institution's academic and operational results.

Keywords : Colombia; elite; Navy; prestige; social anthropology; social class.

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