Okwiri wa elapwahu: uma análise das percepções das lideranças sobre a feitiçaria na Localidade de Incize Distrito de Gurué

Abstract

This work analyses the leadership’s perceptions on Sorcery, at the locality of Incize (Gurue District – Zambezia Province – Central zone of Mozambique Country), otherworldly, how the leaderships (community and religious) builds their perceptions, significances, speeches and intervention way about Sorcery. This analysis was based on the books “Theories of the Social Imaginary” Written by CASTORIADIS, and “Comprehensive Sociology” by MAX WEBER. These theories were used in accordance with Qualitative Methodology, because we aimed to deeply understand how that specific group really deals with Sorcery we didn’t go by the number of inquiries but the quality and amount of information given by each inquired. However we apologize that nowadays, Sorcery is used as a persuasive tool, to explain Diseases, Misfortunes or even People’s Death, relating these events with patterns of envy, greed and distrusting among individuals of the community. To collect data for our study, we used semi-structured interviews with opened questions, previously elaborated and it allowed us, to establish a direct contact with the inquired, leaving him willing to express his perceptions, interpretations or even his experiences without restrictions. The conclusion was that perceptions, significances, speeches and way of interventions from leaderships about Sorcery are driven by practices and behaviors instituted in the community through Sorcery. These practices and behaviors are transmitted to the individuals by the socialization, possessing an existent social structure in the imaginary of the individuals, collectively shared and that drives the individual’s action in the group/community.