ABSTRACT
In this article I focus on the role of masculinity as a subject position among interlocutors of an ethnographic research on the notion of tradition in Cabinda, northern province of Angola (Central Africa), as a follow-up question to the research results, based on gender and feminist studies. Considering that the way a research approaches the people, places, and ideas, in the process of getting into a certain sociocultural context directs it to see and make certain questions but not others, and that the ethnographic situation is mutually constructed between researcher and interlocutors, what I seek with this reflection is to mark out correlations between some aspects of the ethnographic description of the research in Cabinda and different social constructions of masculinity described by anthropological and African Studies references.
KEYWORDS:
Tradition; masculinity; ethnography; subject position; Cabinda