La institucionalización de los boy-scouts en el imperio portugués. El caso de Mozambique (1914-1939)

The institutionalization of scout associations in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique opened a new period of social framing of youth. This project was early supported by the Republican Government in Lisbon in 1914 and aimed at a new and modern European archetype of civilization, under specific models of gender, religion and race. Despite the existence of several works dedicated to daily life in the last years of the Portuguese empire, it is still necessary to look at scout associations an understand how those became extinct in 1939, with their consequent transfer to the state youth organization Mocidade Portuguesa. Thus, the colony of Mozambique was selected as a sample, since during the period between world wars it has revealed how scouting associations in the empire assumed to be a very complex roundabout in colonial politics.