%0 Journal Article
%T Crescendo em catingueira: crian£¿a, fam¨ªlia e organiza£¿£¿o social no semi¨¢rido nordestino
%A Pires
%A Fl¨¢via F.
%J Mana
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
%R 10.1590/S0104-93132012000300005
%X the focus of the present article is ethnographic, aiming to describe the children of the catingueira (a semiarid region in para¨ªba state), highlighting their participation in social and family life. i reveal the contingencies these children face an daily life as well as adults' expectations regarding them, focusing on three ethnographic memories: an event in church involving a three year old child; the ritual presentation of new members to the community and a funeral procession for a "little angel" (a dead child). here i propose to think of small children as laughable, of older children apprentices and of childhood as a period of work and moral learning. the text reveals a universe in which children become agents who are essential for the proper functioning of the family unit and, more generally, of the whole community.
%K children
%K infancy
%K child labor
%K socialization
%K family
%K peasantry.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-93132012000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en