Construção de relacionamentos conjugais na cidadeda Matola

Abstract

The present work analyzes the construction of marital relationships in everyday life. From the literature that I analyzed on marriage, I identified two perspectives, one that considers that marriage is a form adopted by the State and the Region for people to maintain emotional bonds, to be socially inserted to preserve the honor and good behavior of their families, as well as like, to give them a social status, and another that considers that the marriage was built as a means by which the church and society seek to normalize relations between the sexes by establishing norms of social conduct aimed at regulating sexual desire, combating fornication and reproducing the species. The analyzed literature allows us to understand marriage as a way adopted by the State and the Region for people to maintain affective bonds and to insert themselves socially in order to preserve the honor and good behavior of their families, as well as to give them a social status. . It also allows us to understand marriage as a means constructed by the church and society to regulate sexual desire, fight fornication and reproduce the species. However, stay for understanding other ways of building marital relationships in the daily lives of individuals. I carried out an ethnographic research with a group of people in the neighborhood of Khongolote, Matola Municipality, in the province of Maputo and based on the results I understood that in the day-to-day the construction of marital relationships is influenced by parents, friends, relatives and members of religious congregations, which encourage and pressure spouses to build families. The results of this study allow us to understand other dimensions of marriage in the daily lives of individuals in addition to those presented in the literature that analyze marriage as a way of expanding resources within families, as well as regulating sexual desire and reproducing the species (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)