A Spanish-Portuguese border village's economic and social history, focusing on the impact of mines. The description mentions trade, smuggling of coffee and lighter stones, freighters, and eight shops in the village. The dataset was coordinated by Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez and last updated in May 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the economic drivers of border communities based on mentions of mines and trade.
- Studying informal economies and smuggling networks based on descriptions of contraband products like coffee and lighter stones.
- Examining the social impact of border disappearance based on the stated detrimental effect.
- Researching local commerce structures based on the mention of eight shops in the village.
Strengths
- Provides a bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese/English) description of a specific local history.
- Includes concrete details such as eight shops and specific smuggled goods (coffee, lighter stones).
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely contains oral history or ethnographic interview transcripts.
- Time Range
- Time period is not specified.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-05-05 05:57:49; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- A village on the Spanish-Portuguese border.