De tribos à teams: sociabilidades e identidades entre praticantes de Free step

Abstract

In this study, sociability and identity among free Step practitioners are analyzed in Maputo. These practitioners who call themselves dancers are members of teams family rebola, groove's team, rebo base and team obama. The research consists of a snip analysis of the area of ​​Urban Anthropology with a focus on the study of the dynamics of youth microgroups in urban contexts. Those groups that in this study call themselves teams are composed of individuals who are in a range between thirteen and nineteen years old and who practice free step in a geopolitical environment in which official documents such as Youth Policy, Cultural Policy and the Five-Year Programs reflect the valorization of national dances in the name of a national identity to the detriment of foreign dances. However, this study reveals a snapshot of the complex and fluid reality of urban young people looking for novelties and are heavily influenced by information and communication technologies. Thus, the from the theoretical-methodological discussion and the data collected in the field, the results indicate that young people move in fields of possibilities in which they can project their identities and indulge their sociability that is manifested outside the practices institutionally approved and valued.(TRADUÇĂO NOSSA)