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| Author(s): |
Maíra Cavalcanti Vale
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2013-03-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz;
Antonádia Monteiro Borges;
Emília Pietrafesa de Godoi
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| Advisor: | Omar Ribeiro Thomaz |
| Abstract | |
This work is a result of master's course and of the three months of field work developed in South Africa on 2011. The work was done with focus on the daily activities of black women living in KwaZulu-Natal, isiZulu speakers, through the various groups which they are part of. Those groups are linked to funerals issues and to save money - meeting periodically to get money that can be used when needed for the large costs of funerals or rituals for the ancestors - as well as resources related to gain income from saling handicrafts made of beads, food grown in community gardens or raising chickens. From these experiences, it is also made here a discussion about doing and writing a research, for that, it is used along the dissertation elements brought from various forms of knowledge, such as literature, field work and some movies. In doing so, I tried to show what I learned from the people who received me in a way that could reflect the complexity of life and evidence the confusions supposed on being in South Africa. The narrative choices are intended to be an instrument that draws the importance of land and ancestry, and all that is politically linked to them, in the women's lives and homes which welcomed me along the search. Such as the relationships themselves drawn from the differences of language and color. The idea is to build anthropological knowledge in a way that the narrative is a part of the reflection, telling the stories of the people I met in several languages guided by what really care for the women and what they chose to tell me (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04236-0 - Between beads: women, agency and land in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Grantee: | Maíra Cavalcanti Vale |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |