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Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos
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Transhumant Cattle-raisers in Central Spain
Besorgungstitel - wird vorgemerkt | Lieferzeit: Besorgungstitel - Lieferbar innerhalb von 10 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9780854963201
Veröffentl:
1994
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.03.1994
Seiten:
174
Autor:
William Kavanagh
Gewicht:
272 g
Format:
224x143x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
William Kavanagh Lecturer in Social Anthropology,Comillas University, Madrid. Acted as the consultant anthropologist for a film on the transhumant cattle-raisers in the Granada Television production,
This volume, the first study of a transhumant cattle-raising community in Spain, is based on the extensive fieldwork at La Nava de San Miguel, a village in the province of Avila in central Spain. It shows the social and economic factors upon which the continued vitality of this mountain village is based: the use of communal summer pastures; the transhumant groups which walk the cattle to the winter pastures over the mountains; and the system of taking turns for many tasks within the village. The book analyses the dichotomy between the more rigid organisation of life within the village and the organisation of life outside the village, in the transhumant group which goes to the winter pastures in Extramadura.
The setting; village institutions; transhumance; Extremadura as earthly paradise.