Cuidado nos agregados: uma análise a partir de um grupo de residentes no bairro de Zimpeto, cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The research analyzes care in the households among residents in the Zimpeto neighborhood. In literature consulted, I found three lines of discussion. The first argues that the permanence of young people married in their parents' house represents a break in the sequence of transition from youth to adult life, the second argues that the permanence of married young people in their parents' house is a form of incorporation of one family into another, and the third argues that people in their relationships are responsible for caring for each other. The first two lines of discussion focus their analysis on the house as the main element in the development of relationships in households, a fact that makes it important to know if people after married women live in their own house or if they remain in their parents' house. However, upon taking the centrality of the house lose sight of other elements that may be important in relationships, in households, beyond homes. On the other hand, the third line of discussion, on care, provides a basis from which to analyze care in households. In line with the third perspective, I carried out an ethnographic study among some residents in the of Zimpeto, in the city of Maputo and based on the results of the study I realized that living at home of parents is part of a logic of care that guides life in the context of the participants. At the Within this logic, the eldest, parents or siblings, take care of the younger ones, children or siblings and partners and children take care of the parents in an exercise of mutual help. The present research allows us to understand the centrality of care, one of the other, in the households' daily life, unlike the studies that find the house as an element of these aggregates in this daily life.