Casamentos tradicionais mistos: processo de realização e negociação do lobolo nas uniões conjugais entre linhagens patrilinear e matrilinear em Maputo

Abstract

This work is dedicated to the study of the production of cultural identity within mixed marriages whose spouses originate from cultures in which, on the one hand, matrilineal lineages predominate and, on the other hand, patrilinear lineages predominate. The aim is to analyze how these identities are produced in these mixed marriages. Our theoretical framework had the triangulation between Giddens’ structuring theory (2003b) – and Giddens’ reflexive modernity theory (1991c). Qualitative research was carried out and the data were collected through semi- structured interviews with a total of six (6) couples who constituted a conventional sample in which the interviewees came from the patrilinear lineage in Maputo and the matrilineal lineage in Zambézia and Nampula. The analysis of the data allowed us to observe that the two strains are characterized by changes that lead to the coexistence of aspects that originate to them and aspects that have been introduced to them over time, so they reveal to be dynamic realities. This contributes to the interviewees having entered into mixed marriages with some aspects originating from their original and other non-originating lines, hence, the insertion into the mixed union was not marked by deep identity differences. It is concluded that mixed marriages are a space of continuity and discontinuities of the characteristic aspects of cultural identities, as well as the production of new lines, in reference to a hybrid, flexible, dynamic and undefined lineage.