Velhice, identidade e sociabilidade em um café no centro de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

The anthropological studies about oldness and aging have been increasingly addressing reflexively the diferent ways of experiencing old age and how it is built, perceived and meant by these subjects in the multiples spaces of interaction and sociability. Inside this discussion and dialogue with what would approach an urban anthropology, the purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the construction of sociability and belonging networks by interlocutors that assiduously attend a Coffee Shop in the city centre, located at centre walk of Santa Maria – RS. Known locally as ‘B oca Maldita’ , this space represents a simbolic site of interection and sociability betwen ancient men in the city. Having raised this questions, this study proposes to understand the ways of life, the construction of identities and the logic underlying the usual interlocutors that configuring and compose the urban landscape of the city having as methodological support the ethnography and its equipments; the observation participant, interviews and informal conversations. Together with the literature review on topics aging, social identity and urban spaces proposes to delineate a theoretical field and methodological approach to urban dynamics and its implications and copositions in the city horizon and and the actors involved.