Likumbi, consolidar e aprender regras: uma análise a partir de um grupo Makonde na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present study explores speeches about Likumbi as a space for consolidation and rules learning. From the literature on initiation rites, I have identified two perspectives. One that defends that families are spaces of learning that precede the rites of passage and the other that argues that the rites are spaces of learning for the individuals. This literature loses sight of the contribution of interaction between families and rites in the people's learning. Based on the limitation of the analyzed literature, I conducted an ethnographic study among a group of parents, candidates for initiation and initiated in the Chapel, in the Military zone in the city of Maputo. Starting from the analyzed ethnographic material, I understood that the participants consolidate the rules apprehended in the family, with friends and learn new rules during Likumbi. This result allows me to consider Likumbi as a space for consolidation and learning of social rules, which allows to perceive the interaction between the learning prior to the rites of passage and that learned during them, unlike the literature that analyzes these elements as incommunicable poles of learning. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)