Border ethnic groups and national question: the case of "regressados" in Angola

Authors

  • Luena Nascimento Nunes Pereira Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v10i10p45-62

Keywords:

national identity, ethnicity, Angola, bakongo

Abstract

This article deals with the Angolanformer-exiled, ones of ethnolinguistic originBakongo, returning to Luanda, after a long periodof experience in the neighboring country Zaire(current RDC), during the Angola’s independence war, between the years of 1961-1974. The Bakongo is an “ethnic boundary”   living in Angola as in the two Congos. The regress  of this group, with at least one generation born in the exterior, suggests questions on theformation and the instigation of ethnic identitiesand the appearance of new conceptions ofnationality from a culture constructed in aexternal experience to the country. The searchingof new forms of participation of social recognitionand politician through the dispute of thelegitimacy around conceptions of nationalidentity is an ingredient in the complex processof the national reconstruction of Angola.

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Author Biography

  • Luena Nascimento Nunes Pereira, Universidade de São Paulo
    Mestre em Antropologia Social pela USP e doutorandado PPGAS/USP. Bolsista FAPESP.

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Published

2002-03-30

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 10 (2002)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Pereira, L. N. N. (2002). Border ethnic groups and national question: the case of "regressados" in Angola. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 10(10), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v10i10p45-62