Representação de identitarias construidas entre de mulheres consumidoras de bebidas alcoolicas na Cidade de Maputo: uma analise apartir do Bairro das Forcas Populares da Libertação de Mocambiques na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work comprehends the process of representation of identities in the consumption of alcoholic beverages among a group of women in the city of Maputo. The literature on the consumption of alcohol is dominated by the deterministic view. This view argues that excessive consumption of alcohol is the ingestion of an exaggerated amount that has been calculated by an alcohol meter, frequency of consumption and the amount the individual ingests. In this case, excessive consumption alcohol is seen as a universal phenomenon. The deterministic approach, although applicable to other areas of knowledge, becomes limited in Anthropology as a study of cultural diversity, so I set out to advance an investigation that encompasses the socio-cultural and symbolic dimensions. These allow you to read the reality of a certain context and escape the universalization of social reality. The use of the ethnographic method and the qualitative approach, allows us to affirm that the process of identity representation among women who consume alcoholic beverages in the city of Maputo, the space of alcoholic beverage intake is made through analysis. In this case, at women stay overnight and consume alcohol in tents, clubs and streets are attributed to identity of women who drink excessively or badly and the women who represent these identities assume the identity of normal consumers because they drink in the private sphere as a neighbor's tent and in her homes among friends. Women who are assigned the identity of women who drink excessively carry transitory identities because if they stop staying overnight in tents and consume alcohol in the same place and on the streets, regardless of the amount of alcohol they consume, be considered normal consumers. Therefore, this research distances us from the deterministic view that identifies all the people who consume a predetermined amount of alcohol considered excessive as people who drink excessively. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)