Notas sobre gênero e modernização em Moçambique

Arnfred, Signe

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“…Signe Arnfred (2015), for example, had shown that, during socialism, initiation rites in the north were considered so backward that several campaigns carried the motto "down with initiation rites" (p. 186). Furthermore, the reaction of the Amakhuwa women was clear, according to the interviews that the researcher carried out: frustration due to the impediment imposed by Frelimo and loss of those community relationships that constituted one of the central elements of the rites.…”

Section: Disregard In Act and Overcoming It: The Ethnic Question In C...mentioning

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Processos de Marginalização Étnica e Cultural na África Pós-Colonial. O Caso dos Amakhuwa de Moçambique

Bussotti

Nhaueleque

2022

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Apesar de a questão étnica nunca ter constituído um elemento explícito na construção do Estado moçambicano, esta sempre caracterizou a vida pública do país, com tensões relevantes, mas geralmente negligenciadas. Durante a luta de libertação, dois grupos étnicos aliaram-se, os “intelectuais” ronga e os “guerrilheiros” maconde, de facto excluindo os outros povos de Moçambique deste processo que irá marcar indelevelmente a história do país pós-colonial. Na época socialista, o lema “matar a tribo para fazer a nação” continuou a procrastinar o “esquecimento étnico”, prefigurando uma tentativa, malsucedida, de impor o modelo socialista autoritário formulado pelos ronga e machangana a todo o resto do país. A mesma situação se deu com a viragem democrática da década de 1990. Neste caso, diante de um pluralismo formal, os elementos de poder, assim como culturais e artísticos privilegiados foram, mais uma vez, os produzidos no sul (timbila e marrabenta) e no norte, pelos maconde (mapiko e esculturas), em detrimento de outros povos, entre os quais os amakhuwa, o grupo numericamente maioritário em Moçambique. Para este processo de marginalização étnica contribuíram doadores e investigadores internacionais, que aceitaram e desenvolveram a pauta proposta pela Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, interpretando práticas tradicionais como os ritos de iniciação sob o ponto de vista da violação dos direitos humanos. A pesquisa aqui apresentada traz evidências de como este longo processo de esquecimento étnico foi, em boa verdade, um programa político pensado e implementado desde a luta de libertação e que continuou, com as necessárias adaptações, até hoje, influindo diretamente na difusão da produção cultural e artística local. A abordagem usada foi de tipo histórico, com contínuos cruzamentos com a análise política e as políticas culturais de Moçambique.

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Section: Disregard In Act and Overcoming It: The Ethnic Question In C...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Processos de Marginalização Étnica e Cultural na África Pós-Colonial. O Caso dos Amakhuwa de Moçambique

Bussotti

Nhaueleque

2022

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“…Feminists such as Signe Arnfred (1988, 2011) Oyèrónkẹ́Oyěwùmí (1997, 2002a, Akosua Adomako Ampofo (1997Ampofo ( , 2004, and Ifi Amadiume (2000Amadiume ( , 2015 have produced historical and contemporary scholarship that seeks to describe the ways Western gender categories become transposed and also imposed through sustained contact with the West (Oyěwùmí 1997). Gender roles and relations in these areas are welldescribed by Signe Arnfred, and her critique of the use of second-wave Western feminist assumptions in understanding sex and sexuality of Mozambican women, particularly among matrilineal communities and institutions, is an entry point to thinking through a process of decolonisation of gender in development and health.…”

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The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

Somerville¹,

Munguambe

2021

Gender & Development

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“…Esta pesquisa segue u ma tendência oposta e mais recente que sugere a necessidade de estudos mais profundos de tais práticas tradicionais, incluindo a sua evolução nas sociedades dos amakhuwa (Ferraudy 2002;Medeiros 2007;Fonseca & Tristoni 2013;Arnfred 2015;Pinto 2017).…”

Section: O Debate Sobre Crenças E Práticas Tradicionais Makhuwa E Sua...unclassified

4 - Práticas Tradicionais e Direitos Humanos na Sociedade dos Amakhuwa: Estudo de caso da Cidade de Nampula

Nhaueleque¹

2021

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African traditional societies, including the Amakhuwas of Northern Mozambique, developed believes and traditional practices, in the spiritual as well as in the social field, which evolved over time. Nevertheless, the prevalent trend in research relegates such cultures to a role of subordination. This was the case of colonial as well as missionary literature, and it is so in part until today, with the use of paradigms centered into a supposed modernizing approach, which invites ethnic and linguistic groups as the Amakhuwas to leave their practices, in name of the respect of a set of human rights which those practices, would violate. This research, carried out in Nampula city, tries to show that a similar perspective does not consider a universe of values, believes and practices which have to be understood through an “internal” philosophical and anthropological approach. This approach has not to disregard the respect for human individual rights, as well as for collective rights of a group which built its identity on these believes and practices. This research was focused in particular on two interconnected aspects: the social functions of traditional medicine and the initiation rites, especially of feminine type. As a conclusion, this research shows that traditional practices suffered an evolution, in general going towards the respect for human individual rights, differentiating them in accordance with the localization and the social and cultural environment in which they are practiced. Without drawing definitive conclusions, it seems necessary to carry out a deep reflection regarding the relation between traditional practices and respect for human rights inside the amakhuwa society. Laura António Nhaueleque, Researcher at the CEMRI – Open University of Lisbon. Professor of Human Rights, Technical University of Mozambique. Email: lauramacua@gmail.com

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Notas sobre gênero e modernização em Moçambique

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Processos de Marginalização Étnica e Cultural na África Pós-Colonial. O Caso dos Amakhuwa de Moçambique

Processos de Marginalização Étnica e Cultural na África Pós-Colonial. O Caso dos Amakhuwa de Moçambique

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

4 - Práticas Tradicionais e Direitos Humanos na Sociedade dos Amakhuwa: Estudo de caso da Cidade de Nampula

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