Major adult and identity in the Turas

Abstract

Undoubtedly, the experiences lived and that are reflected in the behavior of older adults, are a mirror for successive generations, specially when they are part on an inheritance that is the essence and feeling of a the people that carries them as a life values; San Pedro de Mapararí case, Falcón State, and it´s Las Turas ritual, a practice that has given them identity and recognition links ancestral teachings and custom transmitted by the oldest, responsible for preserving them as a manifestation that honors their idiosyncrasy and ancestors. Las Turas, the only aboriginal manifestation present in Falcón, includes the importance of older adults in perfoming the ritual, a fact that deserves special attention. There is little material in this regard, reason to expand research with the support of students related to Culture and Gerontology, possible promoters of this fusion formed by experience and tradition.