Estrutura social entre os Lomués do posto administrativo de Mugeda, distrito de Mocuba, província da Zambézia, c. 1900-1995

Abstract

In the present work we deal with the colonization of Mugeda carried out in 1905, and the pre-colonial structure of Mugeda, the advance of plantations, the colonial structure, the restructuring of the regulated and tax system. Next, we describe the lineage structure, composed of the uterine uncles and the genearchs, that is, large women of each womb. It is the uterine genearchs and uncles who are largely responsible for maintaining their wombs, in social, economic, political and religious terms.

We also deal with aspects related to the maintenance of order in society, for example, initiation rites. We also focus on the destabilizers of the social order, namely the sorcerers and the alipa mirethe. Social stabilizers, namely healers (anamuku). We also describe marriage, in its different phases, from the rules of exogamy, the nuclear family suffocated by the force of the womb, to polygamy and divorce. Finally, we describe death and the cosmological concepts related to it (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)