Contactos culturais e gestão de monumentos históricos na província de Tete: o caso do forte dom luiz

Abstract

The Zambezi Valley, in central Mozambique, was a meeting point for different peoples, from the speakers of Bantu languages ​​who met the hunter-gatherers (among Africans), followed by Asians, and Europeans. This process has been generically reported, as a colonization, for example in relation to speakers of Bantu languages ​​towards native hunter-gatherers, and later from Asians and Europeans towards speakers of Bantu languages. The arrival of these peoples is marked by new technologies and different habits and customs that, on many occasions being new, local societies ended up adopting. This technological adoption and habits and customs brought by exogenous peoples by local societies is what often calls this process of cultural colonization, forgetting that on other occasions exogenous societies also adopted local habits and customs. I consider these events, not as a cultural colonization, but as a cultural contact, since, when talking about contact between two people or different groups, something learned on the other side is always on one side, or even on both sides, as a result of the experience that these individuals had. The cultural contacts established by different peoples at different times in the Province of Tete have made this point a reference in terms of cultural heritage. The cultural wealth of this province corresponds to a situation that allows the study of cultural contacts, from the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial past. Other cultural contacts between Africans are recorded through written sources, later in the 20th century with the M'fecane movement, carried out by the Nguni people, who in this province bear witness to the beads used by the chiefs and the Ngoni language spoken north of Tete. in the district of Angónia. Colonial fortresses, rectangular houses, the Portuguese language, and imported ceramics are cultural elements, which show cultural contacts with exogenous peoples. The results - 10 of these cultural contacts, with local elements are considered, according to (Law 10/88, of 22 December), as part of our history and the cultural journey of the Mozambican people. The Independence period marks a turning point in cultural contacts, resulting from the National Liberation Struggle process and the consequent recovery of Cultural Identity and training of the Mozambican Nation. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)