Vivências e relações sociais reconfiguradas em tempos da Covid-19: um estudo a partir dos rituais fúnebres na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

In a pandemic, we experience both the loss of life and the loss of jobs, face-to-face social connections and routines. We are experiencing different forms of mourning on a large social scale. This scenario, together with the social distancing necessary to contain the contagion of the disease, leads to the reconfiguration, suspension or absence of traditional mourning strategies and farewell rituals. The objective of this study was understand how the absence of a funeral ritual impacts on the bereavement process of Mozambican Mozambican families victims of COVID-19. The ritualisation of death is inseparable the process of elaboration of losses and we sought to show in this research how the absence of funeral rituals allied to social distancing can have repercussions for generations and in a challenging way for society and for professionals in mental health. professionals(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)