Oral History Interview on Rural Life in Herrera de Alcántara and Malpica do Tejo

A personal oral history interview transcript from Manuel Barreira, a resident of Herrera de Alcántara. The informant describes his father's work transporting goods, his own eight-year experience as a goatherd, military service, schooling, and community relationships with Malpica do Tejo. The dataset was coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso and last updated on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical livelihoods and economic activities based on descriptions of goods transport and goat herding.
• Study cross-border community rituals and relationships based on mentions of shared festivities and slaughtering events.
• Research informal economies and border permeability based on accounts of smuggling and river crossings.
• Examine linguistic and cultural heritage through the recorded denominations of meals and local terminology.

Strengths

• Provides a first-person account with specific temporal details, such as eight years spent as a goatherd.
• Captures multiple facets of rural life, including work, military service, schooling, marriage, and community rituals.
• Last updated metadata indicates recent platform activity as of 2024-05-05.

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 a recorded and transcribed oral history interview.

Time Range

Covers a period in the informant's life, including his youth and adulthood; specific years are not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05 05:32:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focuses on Herrera de Alcántara and Malpica do Tejo, near the river Sever, on the Spain-Portugal border.