“Vizinhu ta trocadu pratu ku kada casa”… Caring to avoid hunger in Brianda, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
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2025
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Lisboa)
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Barbosa Rodrigues, F. (2025). “Vizinhu ta trocadu pratu ku kada casa”… Cuidar para evitar a fome em Brianda, Ilha de Santiago de Cabo Verde. Etnografica, 29 (1), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.4000/13fpm
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Partindo do terreno etnográfico – interior da ilha de Santiago de Cabo Verde – e com base na observação participante e em testemunhos das habitantes locais de Brianda, este artigo é uma contribuição para poder interpretar as estratégias ativadas para a redução do risco de insegurança alimentar (IA). Selecionando como unidade de análise uma tipologia familiar habitual no arquipélago de Cabo Verde, a das famílias monoparentais e matrifocais com chefia feminina, são analisadas as relações estruturais entre género e pobreza (feminização da pobreza), o papel das estratégias sociais tais como a reciprocidade, a entreajuda horizontal, os círculos familiares e os núcleos de vizinhança alargada, e o impacto dos condicionantes exógenos.
Taking the ethnographic field as a starting point – the interior of the island of Santiago in the Republic of Cabo Verde – and basing on participant observation and the collection of testimonies from the local inhabitants of Brianda, this article contributes to interpreting the strategies activated to reduce the risk of food insecurity (FI) that surrounds them. Selecting as a unit of analysis a common family typology in the Cape Verde archipelago, that of single-parent and matrifocal families headed by women, it analyses the structural relationships between gender and poverty (feminisation of poverty), the role of social strategies such as reciprocity, horizontal mutual aid, family circles, and extended neighbourhoods, and the impact of exogenous factors.
Taking the ethnographic field as a starting point – the interior of the island of Santiago in the Republic of Cabo Verde – and basing on participant observation and the collection of testimonies from the local inhabitants of Brianda, this article contributes to interpreting the strategies activated to reduce the risk of food insecurity (FI) that surrounds them. Selecting as a unit of analysis a common family typology in the Cape Verde archipelago, that of single-parent and matrifocal families headed by women, it analyses the structural relationships between gender and poverty (feminisation of poverty), the role of social strategies such as reciprocity, horizontal mutual aid, family circles, and extended neighbourhoods, and the impact of exogenous factors.
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Dossiê "Géneros e cuidados na experiência transnacional cabo-verdiana".










