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- Title
Embates ontológicos e epistemológicos com mulheres amefricanas: autonomia e independência em uma economia "informalizada".
- Authors
Malomalo, Bas'llele; França Bueno, Lúcia de Toledo
- Abstract
The notable place of prominence and the central role of women in pre-colonial African societies has been undermined in colonial endeavors of devastation of African ways of being, with particular developments regarding women as a function of the education of the gender hierarchy and the consequent generification of work. The mischaracterization and criminalization of indigenous, matrifocalized socioeconomic organizations is expressed by the nomenclature of "informal economies". In view of this, the present theoretical-empirical article aims to articulate how the category "matriarchy" applies to the logic of socioeconomic organization reinvented in contemporaneity, producing autonomy and independence of women. We begin with the ontological and epistemological clash that incites the resilience of matriarchal family and economic structures in the Amefricas. Then, in the empirical stage, we see the manifestations of matrifocality from reports of leaders of economic and religious organizations of African matrix. Such economic technologies represent a source of individual and collective life generation and - above all - the capacity to reinvent the principles of matriarchy in contemporary America.
- Subjects
AMERICA; MATRIARCHY; INFORMAL sector; ECONOMIC structure; FAMILIES; RELIGIOUS leaders; WOMEN'S roles
- Publication
Odeere, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
2525-4715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22481/odeere.v7i1.10494