Lógicas que estruturaram as práticas alimentares: uma etnografia em agregados com crianças menores de cinco anos, na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

In the present work I analyse the logics that structure food practices in households with children under five years old. From the literature analysed, I identified two perspectives first one defends that the alimentary practices are elements linked to culture and that are socially constructed meanings, and the other presents the behaviours that individuals have with the other presents the behaviors that individuals have with food and that are established in the group of coexistence and that The other presents the behaviour individuals have with food, which are established in the social group and allow individuals to make choices and reinvent new patterns. The literature analyses hunger as natural and universal, on the other hand eating practices as universal and socially constructed. We must consider that the symbolic system system defines the food consumption norms of families, but it loses sight of the context of social social reproduction that influences the definition of individuals' eating practices. To carry out the study, I carried out ethnographic research among a group of women pregnant women and women mothers of children under the age of five, with a view to understand social reproduction and the strategies adopted on a daily basis in relation to food. The data allows us to understand that from an early age they participated in the production, preparation and preservation of food, which allowed them to develop skills and and strategies within their families and also participate in the maintenance of the social life of their life of their group. Food is acquired for consumption by the whole family, except food that may cause discomfort to children or pregnant women. I also understood that in case of health problems they adopt a diet specific to the needs of the sick person, according to the family's capacity to acquire food. the family. Additionally, in the lack of one or more ingredients for the preparation of a meal they resort to other forms, as long as they are in accordance with what is authorised in their religious denominations. On the one hand, the literature highlights the social nature of food and the behaviour that on the other hand, the data shows that the eating practices of families are designed according to the practices are designed in accordance with the economic activities of each family, based on the strategies the economic activities of each family, based on the strategies that these design to define their food consumption. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)