Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias

The focus of this article is on cross-cultural encounters, involving African, European and Asian identities, that occurred in colonial Mozambique in the 19th and 20th. It suggests that the colonial ideology of «cultural separatism» and the manipulative mana­gement of socio-cultural differences betwe...

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Main Author: Eduardo Medeiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2007-12-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cea/494
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spelling doaj-e65dbd44d4f4496aa3c1e42ce327b9172020-11-25T01:54:14ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942007-12-011315718710.4000/cea.494Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens VáriasEduardo MedeirosThe focus of this article is on cross-cultural encounters, involving African, European and Asian identities, that occurred in colonial Mozambique in the 19th and 20th. It suggests that the colonial ideology of «cultural separatism» and the manipulative mana­gement of socio-cultural differences between African, Chinese, Indian and Portuguese populations did not succeed in supplanting the spontaneous processes of hybridization and transculturation of these communities. It generated continuously new identities and, with them, also new tensions and social recompositions.http://journals.openedition.org/cea/494
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title Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias
title_short Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias
title_full Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias
title_fullStr Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias
title_full_unstemmed Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias
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publisher Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
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publishDate 2007-12-01
description The focus of this article is on cross-cultural encounters, involving African, European and Asian identities, that occurred in colonial Mozambique in the 19th and 20th. It suggests that the colonial ideology of «cultural separatism» and the manipulative mana­gement of socio-cultural differences between African, Chinese, Indian and Portuguese populations did not succeed in supplanting the spontaneous processes of hybridization and transculturation of these communities. It generated continuously new identities and, with them, also new tensions and social recompositions.
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