In this round table we take a critical look at the ways in which academic learning takes place in antropology. Many times, the high specialization of knowledge imposed by colonial processes leaves aside fundamental elements in the construction of knowledge, such as affective bonds, corporeality, interactions with our environment, conflictive situations in the daily life of students and teachers, the ways of relating and communicating in different cultures, as well as crisis experiences. Our proposal consists of approaching perceptions, reflections, and sharing from diverse provocations about our current times, seeking to bring together interests and contributions between formal academic knowledge, popular knowledge, and that from the more-than-human world, which together promote dialogue, tension, ethical, poetic, and political expressions. More broadly, our proposal is to carry out a critical debate on the theoretical and methodological premises of ethnography in order to link personal experience and academic research, generating dialogues to think about an anticolonial anthropological project that includes forms of ‘not-knowing’. Beyond a humanist ideal, we refer to formulations that encourage us to recognize the different ways of relating to the world as keys to envisioning an academy inspired by resistance and committed to ethical principles of solidarity with the multiple lifeforms with which we share the planet.