An oral history interview transcript with Manuel Barreira from Herrera de Alcántara, Spain, describing traditional agricultural and livestock practices. The description mentions topics including small-scale gardening, cereal harvesting, the absence of machinery, and the production of flour, bread, sausages, hams, and dairy products. The dataset was coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso and last updated on May 5, 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyzing historical agricultural techniques based on descriptions of manual harvesting and cereal processing.
- Studying traditional food production methods based on mentions of slaughter, sausage and ham making, and dairy processing.
- Researching changes in rural labor patterns based on the observation that people no longer work the fields as much.
Strengths
- Provides first-hand, qualitative data on traditional practices from a specific individual and location.
- Covers multiple facets of rural life, including crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and food processing as indicated in the description.
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
- Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso (coord.), e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely a recorded and transcribed oral history interview.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-05-05 05:43:35; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Herrera de Alcántara, Spain