The relations between different generations.
Published in Chapter:
Amiais: Territory and Memories Translated From Local Speeches
Ana Melro (DigiMedia, Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, Portugal), Lídia Oliveira (DigiMedia, Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, Portugal), and Ana Carla Amaro (DigiMedia, Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6701-2.ch016
Abstract
The chapter takes a journey through the place, revisiting the central dimensions for its development, particularly, for LOCUS project – playful connected rural territories. These dimensions are playfulness, labor and school, affection, architecture, and religion. For the knowledge and understanding of all these dimensions, semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants, agents from and in the territory (stakeholders), informal conversations with inhabitants, and participant observation of two of the oldest traditional festivals in the village. Amiais is facing some social and demographic processes, (1) search of the younger population for more densified urban areas, (2) which leads to aging population and depopulation of the territory, which tends to cause the (3) loss of cultural heritage, but, at the same time, (4) a change in local architecture.