Crianças Yao e ritos de iniciação: caminhos para o casamento prematuro?

Abstract

This research aims to understand from girls perception, how to womanish initiation rites, influences in early marriages focusing on Yão culture children. However Niassa Neighborhood, hold a strong participation of children in initiation rites and high rate marriage of under eighteen. Therefore it was chosen Lichinga City specially Niassa Neighborhood to carry out the research. To achieve the objective, we used phenomenological method from different data collection techniques such as interviews, observation and illustration. Thus, it is important note that it was Alfred Schuts phenomenological theory which enabled to understand the phenomenon under study. As a sample, participated 15 young girls, including 5 who were not initiated or were prepare themselves for the rite, 5 unmarried initiated and 5 married initiated. The results indicate that initiation rites not directly influence the practice of early marriages, but these contribute to hold the first physical and emotional contact of young girls with the opposite sex.