Monographs about timbila and the construction of the Portuguese empire in Moçambique

Author(s)

Arthur Rovida de Oliveira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2008-06-30

Examining board members

Omar Ribeiro Thomaz; Rita de Cássia Lahoz Morelli; Kabengele Munanga

• Advisor: Omar Ribeiro Thomaz

Abstract

The nation and cultural nationality, specially in the state of Mozambique, are complex themes, because they take together a series of political, historical and cultural aspects of the country and its population. For this research, the analitical object chosen was the category of chant and dance made by researchers of the natives of Mozambique, present in anthropological monographs made at the colonial period. Chant and dance are taken together in an ocidental category of research, non-native. So, first of all, we may question: how the authors extract some social life aspects to write about chant and dance? Which thematics are created and delimited? How, in a wide social life, are set certain categories of chant and dance? Taking this point, we hope to know more about which representations are constituted by these anthropology authors in the context of imperial life, and what constitutes their own alterity relationships (AU)