Muhlabje on the move: trans-institutional bureaucratic interlinkages In the municipality of macia, province of Gaza

Abstract

This article, whose geo-ethnographic impact falls on Muhlabje - one of the districts of Macia, southern Mozambique - tries to understand the social relations and political dynamics that move people, community social networks and the Bantu- With the bureaucracy and municipal policy, without losing sight of the simultaneously continuous and changing social institutions in that community, which are precedent and in movement with colonial domination and with post-independence Mozambique . The argument also unfolds in capturing the social situations intertwined with each other in a continuous and transdynamic flow, that is, the worship of the ancestors, the ceremony by the Mozambican heroes, the gains of agriculture, the purchase and sale of a land , The wine donated to the community by politicians and agricultural products donated by the community to politicians and bureaucrats and local parties are activities-social institutes that cut across the alleged institutional divisions of the impersonal republican bureaucracy and (as opposed to) interpersonal relations And society or Municipality and communities), which is why this flow gains the concept of bureaucratic-transinstitutional entanglements.