Childhood, School, and Family: Continuity and Displacement in Recent Research

A municipal cemetery was opened, in Sa˜o Paulo, in the beginning of the ’90s, with the perspective of having its urbanized portion occupied by the first decades of the next millennium. The cemetery overlooks a hillside; looking at this slope, the official statistics had planned the use of the land: there would still remain a few decades, considering the slower dying pace of the elderly.