Saberes da comunidade de Machia como estratégias de reprodução social

Abstract

In the present study, I analyze social reproduction strategies in the Special Reserve of Maputo. My concern in this research is also to analyze the role of the Machia community, regarding the management and conservation of the Special Reserve, since studies on this theme argue that resident communities conservation areas play an important role in the management and conservation of biodiversity, but do not specify their role exactly. For the materialization of this work, I opted for ethnographic research (qualitative method) which consisted of direct observation, semi-structural interviews and informal conversations where the study was conducted. In this study I adopt the constructionist theories of Berger and Luckman (1985) and the interpretive work by Geertz (1989), from which it was possible to perceive that the role of Machia community in management and conservation is to generate income for REM. Income which constitutes a strategy for the social and cultural reproduction of the community, that it has resources so as not to opt for poaching. From this study it was also possible to realize that the relationship of the community of Machia with the environment in the Reserve is “conflicted”. For if, on the one hand, Reserve managers understand that with the income the community earns at the end of the month would be enough for the community to stop hunting and the community Machia, for its part, understands that its responsibilities to animals are restricted only to the geographical space of the Reserve, therefore, the practice of “Poaching still persists”. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)