Likumbi & ngomma: um estudo sobre a reprodução cultural dos macondes

Abstract

The present monograph has as the objective to understand the relation between initiation rites and cultural reproduction in the maconde community. The study has been done in military neighborhood of Maputo city, due to existence a great number of individuals and families belonging to maconde ethno especially from Mueda plateau that ́s Cabo Delgado. Concerning the methodology used in this work, as approach method we opted to inductive method, as procedure method we used the ethnometodologic method, which was done through indirect observations, applied questionnaire with interviews, especially half-open interviews. The sample was of 21 individuals from which 6 females and 15 males, with resource to the patent criterion in the sampling for accessibility or convenience that it is part of sample no probabilistic. And to understand the theme in cause, we used the theory of the social construction of the reality of Berger e Luckmann and as auxiliary theory the approach of Giddens was used around the Tradition and Modernity. The argument that we defended in this monograph is that despite of rites having a great value in maconde culture in the sense of being an element of socialization indispensable, it does not possible to affirm that initiation rites constitute an form of culture reproduction or culture renovation for the maconde community especially those who are living in military neighborhood in Maputo, in the measure in that the initiation rites just stay as a simple maconde practice, in the others words, her material component but to spiritual component of the maconde culture it goes if diluting gradually winning new forms owed the influences of the urban context. However, the urban context is specially characterized by modern ́s elements of socialization such as technology, groups of pairs, the school and the peculiar character of urban style of life are making with that the initiation rites lose their values of spiritual point of view. Consequently the reproduction or renovation of the culture maconde is questionable therefore same ones don ́t constitute an effective form and with plenty influence for the cultural reproduction.