Baila comigo: os velhos que dançam na praça de Poços de Caldas

• Main Author: Alvisi, Terêsa Cristina
• Publication Date: 2007
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Download full: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12504
• topic: Envelhecimento; Poços de Caldas, MG - História; Praça Pedro Sanches (Poços de Caldas, MG); Idosos - Poços de Caldas, MG - Condições sociais; Aging of persons; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This study concentrates on the historical reconstruction and in the search of the approximation of feelings and attitudes of persons that are arriving at old age, and who use the Pedro Sanches Town Square in Poços de Caldas as a space for dancing. A multiple approach survey was necessary at the start for placing universal definitions in categories and then transporting them over to singular definitions. This requires going from the general to the subjective: research first the formation of towns and public squares throughout the history of mankind, then those that are in Brazil, and finally those in the town of Poços de Caldas. Old age was placed in categories within the universal concept and then in the singular mode as to how each individual grows old. Designed as a qualitative study, the author used the analysis of oral history and observation as methodological resources for the theoretical fundament of the themes that were treated. The persons chosen as references in the survey are individuals that are steady participants and stand out in the dancing that takes place in the square two men and two women. Several interviews were also made with persons that are steady participants. Scenario I, entitled Towns , is composed of a bibliographical survey and theoretical references on how towns were formed along the history of mankind and in Brazil, with the formation of public spaces, specifically town squares, that were transformed into areas for congregating elderly persons. Scenario II, A Town focuses on the history of the formation and creation of spaces that are significant in the town of Poços de Caldas. Scenario III, Time of Permanencies , takes into consideration the concepts of Identity, Subjectivity, Time, and Space, old age in the contemporary town, leisure and old age and the human body that gets older, and possesses movement and can dance. The chapter entitled Come Dance with Me concentrates on the analysis and interpretation of the elderly people that dance in the square. Just as a dance, it is full of movements, impressions, and observations that were structured during the construction of the present research work