O quotidiano dos idosos: um estudo sobre estratégias de reprodução social a partir de um grupo de idosos no Distrito de Boane

Abstract

The present work analyzes strategies of social reproduction from a group of in the district of Boane. From the analyzed literature, I identified two approaches, the first argues that the elderly are considered incapable of producing within the society and the second that defends that the elderly produce for subsistence. The first approach, assuming that the elderly produce nothing within society, loses sight of the experiences of the elderly they produce. In turn, the second approach, on the one hand, allows us to understand that the elderly live on the basis of production for subsistence, on the other hand, loses sight of other strategies of social reproduction of the elderly. Given the limitations, I did an ethnographic study in the district of Boane. Based on ethnographic material collected in the present study, I understood that the strategies of social reproduction of the elderly include the practice of agriculture for consumption and sale, rental of houses, participation in humanitarian aid, religious and of peasants in which they receive material and food support, sewing carpets for own use and sale, and support each other as well as their dependents. Unlike studies that consider that the elderly produce nothing in the heart of society or produce for subsistence, in the present study I show that the elderly produce for consumption and sale, acquire resources to support each other well and their dependents and establish relationships with other people to ensure the their way of life on a day-to-day basis. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)