Transladação, enterros e cerimónias fúnebres em Mundonguara-Manica

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze how the community of Mundonguara manages the funeral ceremonies of the bodies transferred to that place in order to be buried. The analysis field is located in the Administrative Post of Machipanda, District of Manica in the Province of Manica. From the study I realized that the community has its logic of burial of the bodies, where it chooses a family member, to follow the ritual of burial of the body. But after the choice process, the family and the community control the person responsible for the ritual, so that he does not endanger his own life, due to the non-fulfillment of the burial ritual. The community conceives that the non-fulfillment of the ritual, jeopardizes the life of the person responsible for the ritual, but contracts a disease called Chocolo or Pringaniso, a disease that is not cured by biomedicine, but by traditional doctors. This study shows that the community moves the bodies, in order to be able to bury involving the whole burial ritual, not only also emphasize that the graves must be closer together, to allow explaining the family's genealogy. In this community, when the older ones present the graves to the younger ones, they make a presentation in such a present way. However, the research allowed us to understand that on the day of the distribution of the inheritance, the family is handed over some food products, but before they are delivered, a family member pronounces itself as follows: these products are to tell you that your sister or aunt, you will never prepare food. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)