Práticas e representações do acto de comer na rua: um olhar sobre os usuários dos restaurantes ambulantes na Baixa da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand the various ways in which individuals build different realities in the context of the street world in the city of Maputo, based on the practices and social representations of the act of eating on the street. This work focuses on the actors relationships, existing social relationships and interactions, their practices and representations, food and the act of eating in these street places. The "mobile restaurants" are mobile establishments, in which the food. These mobile restaurants are the vehicles that carry food to the commercialization in the lower part of the city of Maputo. This food is prepared from the domestic residence and then it is transported to the street for the purpose of being sold. Thus, the work aims to understand the Practices and Representations of the act of eating on the street, in the “mobile restaurants”, in downtown Maputo. Anthropology was interested in the beliefs and eating habits of primitive peoples, for religious aspects around taboos and for food preferences, for rituals sacred or profane that accompany the commensality and symbolism of food (Canesqui, 2005). We understand that individuals in their daily lives construct their social identities in differently, through the interaction they have in their day-to-day lives. Our study is based on the theoretical framework of Social Representation, as a way of explaining the processes of interactions between individuals in the urban environment with others. In this case, the study sought to reconcile the qualitative approach methodology and the ethnographic method, which allowed to describe and interpret social phenomena in that context. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)