Embodiment of Particular Ways of Being : Habitus as an Autobiographical Narrative 

This paper seeks to define my positionality as a researcher with a fixed cultural identity. The reflexive process is a critical undertaking for the research I'm embarking on that explores the making of a rural workforce. It is a means to an end as it channels me to examine my habitus about Bourdieu's framework. In this paper, I situate the reader by relating events and experiences in my life that informed the attainment of my habitus. As a child, I learnt the nuances of the Xhosa language through story-telling. As I started my journey, I was endowed with cultural, symbolic and social capital. In a rural setting where I was raised, I became a learner in a community where books and stones as disposable objects became fixed assets that facilitated my transition to a higher education institution. As an adult, it was through the sustained efforts of others that I became a health care professional.