Percepções e experiências sociais do lobolo na actualidade: um estudo de Chongoene/Nhacutse, na província de Gaza

Abstract

This monograph consisted of an attempt to look at lobolo as a factor of transformation and change in social experiences. This research had a special focus on analyzing perceptions and meanings attributed to the practice of lobolo in the current context in the district of Chongoene/Nhacutse in Gaza province. To achieve the objectives and answer the starting question, we resort to a literature review and data collection, using intensive participant observation techniques, case studies, semi-structured interviews, formal and informal conversations. Regarding the theoretical basis and analysis of this work, resulted from the sum of several texts and studies in Anthropology, Sociology and Stories that deal with lobolo in Tsonga societies, with greater emphasis on Granjo (2005), Junod (1996), Bagnol (2008) and Radicliffe-Brown (Sd). The sum of this multidisciplinary aforementioned studies is due to the dynamic need of the theme. Through the literature consulted and the reality observed in the field, we realized that the practice of lobolo today has triggered a process of transformation in the perceptions that are constructed surrounding this ritual, several historical, economic, political and ideological factors conditioned the negotiability that accompanies this practice, a fact that the prospect of this phenomenon Marcel Mauss' total social structure was fundamental to understanding the transformations related to this practice and draw the current panorama of lobolo in Changana society, specifically the district of Chongoene/Nhacutse in Gaza province(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)