Tradição em espaço urbano: um estudo sobre os Ritos de Iniciação no contexto da cidade de Nampula, o caso do Posto Administrativo de Muatala

Abstract

The rites of initiation are a recurring practice and regular in some regions of the country, especially in the center and north. Even having been fought in some contexts and suffering changes and reconfigurations in timeliness, rites still persist and are regarded as an entity responsible for the preparation of young people and adolescents to adult life. In this monograph entitled “Tradition in Urban Space”: a study on the rites of initiation in the context of the city of Nampula, the case of Muatala. The central aim is to produce an understanding of continuity of the rites of initiation in a context in which young people and adolescents forge their identities in contact with multiple spaces of sociability and values of modernity. Over the course of the monograph we have shown that the rites of initiation are a dynamic tradition is not beyond the ongoing transformations in society as a whole and that the continuity of the same is related to the fact that this is being reinvented and reconfigure while an entity that ensures the preservation of the values of macuas societies