Rural Livestock and Slaughter Practices in La Alamedilla, Spain and Portugal

A multilingual oral history session recorded in a bar captures discussions on domestic animals, roe deer, cattle, dairy, and traditional slaughter practices in the village of La Alamedilla. The recording is in Spanish and Portuguese, with sporadic interventions from a bar patron, documenting a cultural practice now maintained by only a couple of families. Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez coordinated this session, which was last updated in the dataverse on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze linguistic patterns and code-switching based on the Spanish and Portuguese dialogue mentioned in the description.
• Study cultural change and tradition loss based on the description of slaughter practices now performed by only a few families.
• Catalog traditional knowledge about livestock, dairy, and wildlife (roe deer) management from the oral accounts.
• Train multilingual speech recognition or transcription models on a real-world, informal conversational recording.

Strengths

• Captures a specific cultural practice (traditional slaughter) that is described as being in decline.
• Contains authentic, informal multilingual dialogue in Spanish and Portuguese from a real-world setting.
• Metadata includes a specific last update timestamp (2024 05 05 06:45:31) and a named coordinator.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, audio clarity, and length require manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation and sample data are absent; the content and structure of the audio file(s) must be inferred.
• The geographic and temporal scope of the discussion is implied but not explicitly stated, which may limit contextual analysis.

Provenance

Source

Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso (coord.), harvested via e-cienciaDatos Dataverse.

Collection Method

Likely contains an audio recording of an oral history session conducted in a social setting (a bar).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 06:45:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely focuses on the village of La Alamedilla, with cultural connections to Spain and Portugal.