The Slaughter: Sensory Landscape and Practices in San Martín de Trevellu

Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso coordinated a dataset on the traditional pig slaughter (la matanza) in the village of San Martín de Trevellu/Trevejo. The description references the sensory landscape, including sounds and smells, and covers topics like the analysis of the pig's tongue, local slaughtermen, sausage types, and drying processes. The dataset was last updated on May 5, 2024, and is hosted by the e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing sensory descriptions of rural environments based on mentions of noises and smells.
• Studying traditional food production techniques based on references to sausage types and drying processes.
• Documenting local terminology and roles based on the mention of 'slaughtermen of the place'.
• Researching seasonal cultural practices based on the reference to activities in November.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, documented cultural practice (traditional pig slaughter).
• Includes multilingual description (Spanish, Portuguese, English) suggesting broader accessibility.
• Provides a concrete geographic reference to the village of San Martín de Trevellu/Trevejo.

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 and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely ethnographic documentation or interview collection, as inferred from the descriptive content.

Time Range

The description references November, but the overall temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:39:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

The village of San Martín de Trevellu / Trevejo.