MEMORIES OF A THIRTY-DAY EXPERIENCE IN MAPUTO-MOZAMBIQUE

Abstract

This article is a result of the participation in the Project “social practices and women and men knowledge and the production of the rural territory in the Marracuene district in Mozambique: the viability of the productive alternatives in the world of the sustainability”, developed between 2013 and 2017 and structured based on an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional proposal. My role in the mentioned project, in what is related to the direct contact with the population, took me 30 days of a permanence experience in Maputo-Mozambique. The aim of this text is to present my own impressions of this period, by looking at women and their own lives production, whether material or immaterial, by an approach and respect methodology to the cultural diversities and to the work organization. The observation, dialogues, photographic records and in the field notebook, occurred in rural and urban spaces, in areas of food production and commercialization. The results are indescribable. What I present here, are manifestations of collective knowledge and I show, as well, relevance to value the shared learning between the two countries in a respectful way, breaking the hierarchies imposed by the scientific knowledge, when it denies or excludes the traditional knowledge and the ways of life grounded on disparate cultures

This article is a result of the participation in the Project “social practices and women and men knowledge and the production of the rural territory in the Marracuene district in Mozambique: the viability of the productive alternatives in the world of the sustainability”, developed between 2013 and 2017 and structured based on an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional proposal. My role in the mentioned project, in what is related to the direct contact with the population, took me 30 days of a permanence experience in Maputo-Mozambique. The aim of this text is to present my own impressions of this period, by looking at women and their own lives production, whether material or immaterial, by an approach and respect methodology to the cultural diversities and to the work organization. The observation, dialogues, photographic records and in the field notebook, occurred in rural and urban spaces, in areas of food production and commercialization. The results are indescribable. What I present here, are manifestations of collective knowledge and I show, as well, relevance to value the shared learning between the two countries in a respectful way, breaking the hierarchies imposed by the scientific knowledge, when it denies or excludes the traditional knowledge and the ways of life grounded on disparate cultures.

Keywords:Women. Work. Rural and Urban. Daily.