Formas de representação da cultura tradicional de Cabinda em processos educacionais das Bakama

Abstract

This thesis is entitled: representation forms of traditional culture of Cabinda in Educational processes of bakama. It aimed at studying the educational processes of bakama. In this context, (1) knowing the main rituals involving the identity of bakama from the cultural point of view, (2) meeting the educational relationship established between the adult generations, children and youth, (3) understanding how the community subjects become bakama, (4) knowing the meaning that cultural actors attach to masks and rituals of the group. Based on the objectives of this research I posed the following research question: What rituals include the transmission of knowledge processes within the bakama community? The raised problem allowed me to define the following questions: (1) How a community individual becomes bakama? (2) Which meanings do members of bakama attach to the masks? (3) Which meanings do they attach to the rituals of the group? (4) How an adult generation educates the younger generation to the socialization of the community values and rules according to bakama? (5) What kind of rituals identifies the social functionality of bakama? (6) How is the succession to the throne of bakama? (7) What is the origin of bakama? From a methodological point of view to obtaining data, there were undertaken interviews conducted with leaders of the five groups of bakama. Also, there was a group of interview through round table conversation with youth and children of the community of bakama of Tchizo. They were also performed dance and observations of the funeral ritual related to the bakama Tchizo by shooting use to facilitate observation and further analysis. From a theoretical point of view, there was an approach around the concepts of culture, civilization and traditional African culture. The results allow us to state that: the bakama are a secret society and its secrecy comes from the enigmatic cosmology of their masks; they have mythological origins through Lusunzi mermaid and despite not knowing for sure the date of its origin, this study estimates that its origins date from approximately in 1491; knowledge of the group are passed from older children, with greater participation of women in the quality of the mother; they have a ritual of initiation ritual to the group, laws and regulations that regulate both the group members and the society; the five groups identified as being bakama, first three are identified as bakama, and two are identified as Zindunga.