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Resumen

This article discusses the use of audio-visual techniques in social researches, referring to a comparative research about the role of publics spaces in Paris and Rio de Janeiro regared to the elders sociability. The aim of this study is to deepen the investigation in the field of urban anthropology as adding to its methodology the instrurnents of visual anthropology. Vídeo is used along side with interviews, opening up to the possibility of repeating images, with allows new questions, corrections, modifications anel inclusions based upon suggestions of the filmed people. Such feedback method has been important for the study os spontaneous sociability manifestations, as it allows the understanding of the simbolic construction of a pertaining territory and above all the representation of personal identity, particularly of the elders