"Vejez en edad extrema. Un estudio de etnogerontología social"
(Susana Villasana Benítez), publicado na revista Revista pueblos y fronteras digital, da Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-41152010000200217
Encontrei, por acaso, a tradução para o inglês, publicada na revista Granta (nr. 166, 08 /fev. 2024), deste ensaio do filósofo e ensaísta francês Didier Eribon. Não conhecia o ensaio, apenas havia lido boas referências sobre ele, mas estou gostando muito de lê-lo agora, por isso recomendo a sua leitura.
The Life, Old Age and Death of a Woman of the People
Didier Eribon/Translated by Michael Lucey
"My link with my mother placed me within a collective history and a mental geography that a single word can describe: family. In her book Old Age, Simone de Beauvoir calls attention to societies studied by ethnologists where older people are the keepers of the knowledge of family genealogies. Is it not the same in our own society? It is certainly so when it comes to genealogies, and, more widely, to that social memory that is most at risk of disappearing alongside genealogies. The task of remembering in this way usually falls to women, partly because they live longer, on average, than men, but also because, in a general way, women are the ones assigned the task of maintaining family relationships and friendships throughout their lives, and so they keep the register up to date, and understand the complexity of these relationships and the changes that take place within them. So it is that in Patrimony, Philip Roth can insist about his mother: ‘it was she around whose quietly efficient presence the family had continued to cohere,’ and that she was ‘the repository of our family past, the historian of our childhood and growing up’. The point here extends beyond ‘family’ understood in the narrowest sense of the term. I am acutely aware of this now: my mother’s death has cut me off from an entire part of myself which, by way of her, remained connected with even quite distant family connections. When I came across the name ‘Eribon’ somewhere on the internet beside a name I didn’t recognise, I could always ask her: ‘Do you know who this is?’ and she would reply: ‘Yes, that’s one of your father’s brother X’s sons,’ or ‘Yes, that’s the wife of X, one of the sons of your father’s cousin,’ and so on. Her genealogical knowledge extended across several generations."
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E este também recomendável texto de Paulo Roberto Pires, publicado no jornal Quatro cinco um (Edição #37, 27 Ago, 2020).
A origem da vergonha
Nascido numa família operária, Didier Eribon parte de sua trajetória para analisar a despolitização de um mundo que se pretende livre das marcas sociais.
