@inbook{dd87255bbccb49679993e75f1db7b6e9,
title = "Life Stories of Elders and Their Significant Objects",
abstract = "The{\^A} aim of this paper is{\^A} to show how social memory is built over{\^A} a long{\^A} period of time and particularly how old people{\textquoteright}s memory and identity are based on significant objects. The paper attempts to delineate old people{\textquoteright}s self-perceptions about themselves—of their identity and finally, what it{\^A} means to be old. In order to do so, some life narratives from a group of old people—men{\^A} and women—were collected and transformed into life stories. Life stories allow one to understand how memories are built over time, while daily life is lived. Social memory is a concept used to explore the tie between social identity and historical memory—in what family origins, territorial belonging, rituals, beliefs and conducts are concerned. If the materials that support memory are destroyed the paths of “consequent souvenir”—understood as the passage of memories to others—become blocked and one loses the way. In{\^A} order to remember, memory needs stakeholders as well as places, objects and structures (family and/or communities) it can rely on if it is{\^A} to make sense.",
keywords = "Elders, Identity, Memory, Objects, Social memory",
author = "{de Albuquerque Piedade}, {Ana Felisbela}",
note = "UIDB/04038/2020 UIDP/04038/2020 ",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-18593-0_26",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-18592-3",
series = "Studies in Systems, Decision and Control",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
pages = "345--362",
editor = "S{\'a}nchez-Serrano, {Jos{\'e} Luis Sarasola} and Fabrizio Maturo and {\v S}{\'a}rka Ho{\v s}kov{\'a}-Mayerov{\'a}",
booktitle = "Studies in Systems, Decision and Control",
address = "Switzerland",
}