A dimensão lúdica da experiência de infância na memória de velhos: a brincadeira com referência no mundo adulto

Abstract

This article discusses games as references into the adult world from the playful dimension of childhood experience in elder people’s memory. Starting with the Principle of Oral History, it was interviewed nineteen elderly residents from the Island of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and the Azores (Portugal) where they spent their childhood, in a time and space frame between the 1930’s and the 1950’s, having as reference the records of games and toys contained in the work of folklorist Franklin Cascaes. In the investigated field, among the research’s findings there is a playful dimension from the childhood experience used as a reference to the recreation or transformation of the toy, made by the child, in the relationship that the child establishes with the adult world of which the toy originates and imposes continuous determinations.