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PADILLA ARROYO, Antonio. Memory and Experiences of Death and Orphanhood. Secuencia [online]. 2006, n.66, pp.65-88. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i66.981.

The objective of this text is to reconstruct the life experiences that occurred following the death and loss of the mother, which is why the children spent their lives as orphans. An oral testimony is used to recoverthe memory and experiences that led to this condition and the author identifies some of the cultural and social mechanisms that operate in the processesof grief and the childish feeling of vulnerability, in other words, how orphanhood is recalled and experienced, as well as the family strategies used to look after and protect infants from the affective and material shortages implied by these circunstances. Testimonies are used to reconstruct the social and cultural context in which the children developed and the institutional concerns that surrounded them, such as school and family. It is worth pointing out that during the period of study, between the 1930s and 1940s, one of the social problems, particularly of public health, was to design a public health policy to reduce the mortality and morbidity rotes among the Mexican population, which gave rise to situations of orphan hood among a sector of boys and girls, and therefore of the affective adjustment between them.

Palavras-chave : Oral history; memory; childhood; orphanhood; family; attachment; feelings; death; child mourning.

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