âA transiÃÃo à a vida inteiraâ: uma etnografia sobre os sentidos e a assunÃÃo da adultez

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This thesis is result of a research undertaken between 2004 and 2008 in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Looking at the transition of youth to adulthood, from the perspective of the life course, it seeks to bring up questions that contribute to an Anthropology Life Ages. The first question asks: if the ages are relational, how is this considered theoretically? This aspect is also present in the f ieldwork and needs to be worked out methodologically. Thus the research does not fail to consider the ways in which the age of the author of the thesis was present not only in the fieldwork but also in the readings of the data and the bibliography relative to the theme. From interviews done with young people with diverse experiences on their way to assuming adulthood and with their parents, it was pos sible to perceive that age assumes diver se meanings , going beyond the sense of phase or stage of the life course that a chronology perspective might try of imprint. Al so the meanings given to youth, adulthood and life are diverse and change accordingly as the subjects move through the life course. An at tempt to understand the transition to adulthood, in this way, ends up being directed not only by events such as leaving the parental home, marriage or insertion in the marketplace (that has both diverse meanings for the individuals and puts them in dilemmas of different kinds), but also by the subjects expectations with respect to their trajectories and their own view of them. Instead of making classifications of these experiences, emphasis is given to the narratives about the experiences bringing a rich diversity to the study. Some notions commonly articulated in studies about youth and adulthood, like responsibility and maturity are considered from the point of view of how the interviewees understood these notions â which revealed various dimensions, such as the idea that responsibility is something that one has throughout oneâs whole life, or that maturity is different than adulthood, because it is what one learns through experience. Regarding the notion of transition, although it seems pertinent to think about the crucial moment of the young interviewees lives who feel that they are in âa crisisâ or at âa cros sroadsâ, our data reveal that all of life is perceived as a transition in which change and new challenges are not the privilege of any one age.

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antropologia adultez transiÃÃo curso da vida juventude youth, adulthood, life course, transition.

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