Antropología de lo cercano: el etarismo
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Hospitalidad ESDAI
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Covadonga Torre Marina, María
Abstract
In the present essay, I seek to think about on the problems of old age in the contemporary period since, besides being a personal concern, it coincidentally became the focus of several films that have been projected in the recent months on the Mexican billboard. Cinema may be a reflection of the concerns, fears and problems of the society, is an attention call to prepare ourselves for what is coming. I don’t know if the term protest cinema is the most appropriate, but thinking about it, it called my attention the similarity that some kind of cinema can have with anthropology, which essentially seeks to analyze the conflicts that arise in the institutions and societies, to visualize them first, and propose possible solutions later. As they say in the colloquial field: the anthropologist seeks conflict, quarrel, since coexistence among human beings is never totally harmonious and hence, is there, right in the problem, where he focu- ses his analysis. As Garcia Acosta and Melville claim (2009, p.45), “anthropology is one of the social sciences with an extremely ambitious intellectual and academic agenda. Its central subject of study is the permanence and change of socio-cultural phenomena; therefore, its purpose is to know and analyze the whole humanity.” In addition to old age, or more precisely, the discrimination of which “the old geezers” are subject, I was attracted to the idea of thinking on what is the subject of study of current anthropology and it’s just the binomial that occurs between old age and the analysis of the nearest, both in the Number our days (1978) documentary by Barbara Myerhoff, as in the film Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (What if we lived all together?) (2013), by Stéphane Robelin, what made me decide for the topic: Anthropology of the nearest: the Ageism.
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Torre Marina, M. C. . (2017). Antropología de lo cercano: el etarismo. HE, (32), 7–26. Recuperado a partir de https://scripta.up.edu.mx/handle/20.500.12552/7039
Table of contents
Etarismo o edadismo --Antropología del etarismo -- Antropología de lo cercano -- Conclusiones