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RAMOS, Anne Carolina. O corpo-bagulho: ser velho na perspectiva das crianças. Educ. Real. [online]. 2009, vol.34, n.02, pp.239-260. ISSN 0100-3143.

Children have a lot to say about the social culture surrounding them. Through their background, children enable us discovering their habits, their day-to-day life, their games, as well as their wide knowledge on the society they live in. In this research, a group of sixteen boys and girls from the outskirts of Porto Alegre are called to show their knowledge regarding elderly. Throughout the discussions, which were carried out in focal group meetings, it is possible to realize how the elderly is conceived and represented in contemporaneous time. Therefore, children’s knowledge shows a wide cultural curriculum which produces and legitimates discursive statements on the aging body. Such statements relates the old-body to certain attributes and ultimately influence their way of being, acting and living.

Palavras-chave : Childhood; Old People; Body.

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